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But because I truly think it compounds unhappiness, this irrational belief that I'm actually addressing the topic, the happiness hour.
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I mean, there is always the possibility that it brings people some comfort because people hate chaos.
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People, I wonder, is it...
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Do some people prefer to believe they're being punished by God to tragedy happens?
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You ever think of that?
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You think that that's possible?
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Because I find it so incredible that somebody would think that way.
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I mean, what is their view of God?
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I mean, that can't make you happy.
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God took my child's life because I'm so bad?
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Did the worst thing possible?
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You know, how does that portray God?
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Look, I have enough difficulty with, which I believe is a parable, the Job story.
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You know, Satan with his deal with God.
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I have enough problems with that.
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But that's a story to make a point about suffering in God's existence.
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But this really doesn't...
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I don't see how this can add to a person's happiness.
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You've lost your child and then you think you are so awful as to have deserved it.
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That's what we call compound unhappiness.
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Good people...
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I mean, good people suffer.
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It's one of the most obvious lessons of the human condition.
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And some bad people don't.
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Yes, indeed.
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Yes, indeed.
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Thank you.
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Not only does it depict God as cruel, Because of the punishment to the parent.
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What does it say about the punishment to the person?
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Did he or she deserve to die?
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And does God use children to punish parents?
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When there's a biblical phrase, children shall not die for the sins of the parents, nor parents for the sins of their children?
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Alright, that's why I put it on the Happiness Hour.
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It's bad enough to have such tragedy than to compound it with, gee, I deserved it.
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I mean, you know, I admit if you smoke cigarettes for 30 years, two packs a day, and you get lung cancer, it's not a punishment.
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It's a sad consequence.
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And my heart goes out to you anyway.
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We'll be back.
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