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The Causation of God Playing Russian Roulette With His Followers

If memory serves me correctly, humans agree on three viewpoints about life. These ideas, like most human speculations, are flawed, and if one lives with this mask of deception sewn to his face with denial and ignorance, then all things in this world are but to be denied. First, some say that all human experience is based on destiny. Second, some hold that everything is created by God and controlled by His will. Third, some say that everything happens by chance without having any cause or condition. If all has been decided by destiny, both good and evil are predetermined, happiness and suffering are predestined. Nothing would exist that has not been foreordained. All human plans and efforts of improvement and progress would be in vain and humanity would be without hope. The same is true of the other viewpoints, for if everything in the last resort is in the hands of an unknowable God, what hope has humanity except in waving a white flag of surrender, stained with the blood of the innocent? It is no wonder that humans holding these conceptions lose hope and neglect efforts to act wisely and to avoid evil. These three viewpoints are wrong; everything is a succession of appearances whose source is the accumulation of causes and conditions.