People talk about the "good old days" when public schools pushed religion (and only their form of it) and everybody was so well-behaved. Perverts didn't exist. Didn't rape children. That sort of thing wasn't talked about. Society was more...secretive.

Whatever you believe about God, life wasn't like it was depicted on TV in the 1950's and other decades. And these days, we have more access to more people's lives than ever before. It's overwhelming. But it doesn't mean there's more negativity (and I'm not saying there's not), because it could just be that you hear about so much more of it now.

I wonder about God, too. But I also have one theory: God doesn't interfere with what S/He set in motion. We have free will from God, the choice to do what we want...however, others may use their free will to take away your free will. Or you might be born with a disease or condition. A random act of fate. It isn't that God doesn't care; it's that this life is the test to see if you can be who God wants you to be. Your actions and thoughts here will be what gets you into Heaven or Hell. Or maybe there's no Hell...maybe we have to live multiple lives to learn lessons that earn us a place with God. I don't know. It's a theory.

Or, maybe none of it is true. Maybe God exists, maybe S/He doesn't. Maybe it's like I described above, or maybe God sprinkles miracles all around and picks certain people to help and not other ones. I don't get why children who are being molested and pray to be saved from it aren't always saved. I don't get why a mother whose daughter was shot said that God saved her infant son because he wasn't shot. So, why didn't God save the daughter, too?

I think people make pieces "fit" into the puzzle. If something sounds like a possible explanation of why God does this or doesn't do that, people think, Yes! That must be it! So, they put it in their little bag of puzzle pieces, but that piece may not be correct. Just because something makes sense to you, doesn't mean it's correct. It also doesn't mean it isn't correct.

Anything is possible, and nobody knows. They might believe, but they don't know.