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Why Does God Punish Good People and Reward the Bad Guys?A relative of mine recently told me: "Uday, my husband has cancer - that too diagnosed in a very advanced stage. He is a good and pious man. He has helped everybody, loved everybody and done nothing wrong in his life. Still God has punished him..."When an innocent good student was brutally raped in Manipal, one of my friends told me "There are lots of girls who are frequently out at night spending time in pubs drinking and smoking till wee hours of morning - nothing happens to them. God is blind and there is no justice..."Once, a father of a newlywed daughter told me that his son-in-law was found to be totally immoral, drunkard, cheat and corrupt, with some diseases too. Whereas his daughter was a real gem of a human and he never ever thought God would cheat his daughter like this..."Such sad news always upsets me."Why is God so cruel?" they ask."World is unfair to me" is a popular complaint. Recently another friend of mine, Joyson Abraham, raised the same complaint."I understand that you follow certain set of principles in life. I know you follow all do's and don'ts as per your religion..." I said."Yes- still I had this shocking setback in life. My only son is suffering from Multiple Myeloma, bone-marrow cancer. We have been living a pious life..." his eyes welled up with tears. Every time when somebody cries or when I hear sad stories I can't control myself, it makes me cry.I told him: "I empathize with you. I can also feel the pain and pangs in you. So I also cry. But I recover fast. I know that you are a good man. But being good socially, legally, and spiritually (means religion-wise or cult-wise) doesn't necessarily mean you are cosmically good. Unfortunately we know nothing about cosmic rules and laws...""But the God told us how to live""The statements like 'God wants us to behave a certain way to receive rewards from him. Or God wants us to live in a certain way, else we will be sent to rotten hell' are