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Yesterday turned out to be a full day so I managed to do just two Posts. I should be able to complete the last two in the series today.
One of the toughest questions faced by advocates of religion is the evident unfairness of the circumstances of the people around us. Those preaching about a loving and compassionate and just God struggle to explain why some people have to suffer so much while others seem to live charmed lives. They resort to arguments like "we cannot understand God's purpose" and "we must have faith that God has a reason". They also struggle to explain why an Omnipotent God cannot eliminate Satan and the evil spawned by Satan. Most of all, they have no answer to the reasoning that an Omniscient God would have seen the future of the people who will commit terrible evil but still allows them to be born.
The many theologies that were born in bharath have one thing in common - they all subscribe to the idea that we don't live a single lifetime and, based on a judgement of the single lifetime, need to spend the rest of eternity in suffering or bliss. The common belief is that we all live multiple lifetimes and the circumstances that we face in each lifetime is the result of what we had done in previous lifetimes. This immediately offers a sense of justice and reason for the varying circumstances of the people around us.
The next segment of my paper explores this idea and the implications thereof.
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