If you did, you'd get Saint Augustine on one side telling you it's because there is evil in the world, and that means that the world is incomplete, not whole, and fundamentally wrong because there are things it still lacks. On the other side you'd get Saint Thomas who would tell you that pain is the path to virtue. Somewhere behind them, probably being violently restrained by Ignatius Loyola, would be Calvin and Edwards, who would say it's because you were predestined to suffer this way because God said so.
Who is right and who is wrong I can't say, but those would be the answers, I think.
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Date: 2008-04-07 05:49 am (UTC)Who is right and who is wrong I can't say, but those would be the answers, I think.