I expected this book to be hokey and filled with the dull HANG IN THERE platitudes of every other self-help-through-hard-times book I've read, but instead I found a perspective on religion that changed my life. As a unitarian, I can't recommend this book enough to fellow Christian Unitarians. However, since the entire basis of it revolves around the nature of God, I can't really recommend it for anyone from a non-religious perspective, which stinks. ( )

When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner..when Kushner son Aaron was just three years old, he was diagnosed with a rapid aging disease; he died after his fourteenth birthday. Out of this harrowing experience, the author has created a meditation about God, human suffering and life's tragedies. He contends that bad things happen to good people because it sometimes just goes that way; we are given freedom of choice and consequently life is full of injustices; nature is morally blind; and there may be "corners of the universe where God's creative light has not yet penetrated.

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