Over the weekend, I went to a Minnesota Atheist meeting in Minneapolis to hear Stephanie Svan speak on justice in a “just world.”

Her talk coincided with a Christian posting a comment on my Inherit the Wind blog in which she said, in part:

I don’t feel my children are growing up ignorant because we teach them that they are gifts on loan from God to us, and they are loved and cared for by parents and a God who loves them dearly and has an awesome plan and purpose for their lives.

If I had a fundamental objection to religion, it is this idea that god has a “plan” for us.  It plays into this idea that the universe is inherently a “fair” place.  Yet the facts suggest that this is not the case.

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