Originally Posted by
jcparker96
This is a question I've given much thought to. I think that, where I live at least, most people are not lucky to have been born. In my case, I have most things I want, and I consider myself to have been blessed with decent personal attributes. On the other hand, most people I know have one or several relatively serious problems: they don't have enough money to live decently, or they are in unhappy marriages/relationships/, or they were born with health problems/deformities, and so on... These sort of things make me WANT to be religious, because sometimes I get the feeling that only faith can answer questions of this kind -- for instance, why some people seem to be destined to be happy and successful, whereas others are going to be miserable no matter what.