“Everything happens for a reason”, what to people mean when they say this? Do they believe there is a reason behind say for example, leaving work early because their child is sick to find out later that a fire broke out after they left and one worker was killed. Proponents of the “everything happens for a reason” mindset would say that some force, not necessarily a god though, acted to protect them from the fire.
The statement was once brought to my attention when I asked, “How is it that in America they believe they have god given rights, yet many people around the world do not have rights? Doesn’t exactly make a strong case for a god that cares for its’ creation” the response I received was “everything happens for a reason.” Unsurprisingly, that response wasn’t followed up with the answer to, what is the reason? This scenario I experienced shows the flaw in this argument, that the believer is often ignorant of the reason. Sure you could say getting called out of work because of the sick child clearly had a reason but, most of the time the statement is a more mystical way of saying “I don’t know”. I may just be a cold-hearted cynic but many things that happen have no reason, in fact they are closer to being the products of madness than reason. A young girl is raped her perception of the world shattered. What is the reason? A woman who has faced constant abuse from her husband commits suicide leaving the child alone either in the hands of a cruel father to a childhood of orphanages. What is the reason? Why can we not accept that things, good or bad, just happen?
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