Even more that religion, do I hate when people believe in a ‘fate’ or ‘destiny.’
When people say that ‘everything happens for a reason,’ I want to grab them by the shoulder and yell at them, “Did the Rwandan genocide happen for a reason? Were the Tutsi systematically slaughtered by fate or destiny? Was the Holocaust and Rape of Nanking, where Japanese soldiers murdered, beat, and raped Chinese no more than children to the weakend elderly, were those part of your god’s plan? When we take up close to virtually nothing of the universe, how do you stand so arrogant to think that there is some master plan, some calculation so that you can just write off all of the sufferings of history under the umbrella of ‘fate’ or ‘destiny.’”
It’s appalling.
