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When watching faithful people suffer challenges belief in divine justice

Everyone at the funeral talked about how my grandmother's suffering is over, but she was the most faithful person I knew and it doesn't seem fair that being good led to so much pain.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Witnessing the prolonged suffering of virtuous individuals contradicts expectations of moral reciprocity in the universe.

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