Is God fair?

I have a wonderful man that I email back and forth with whose wife is having a very hard time medically. It made me start thinking about how some people, like Terry Shaivo, or my friend’s wife, seem to have such a hard time with things that "God's Miracles" could so easily handle, if God so chose.

I guess, in a religious sense, I can’t help wondering sometimes why does God torture some people like this.

The thing I learned when I died is that God is not the one that lets this happen to good people. This is the "Mother Nature System" that deals like this.

I read a sci-fi book once a long time ago in which the "space police" came back to earth after a millennia of being away. In the story the space police observed that we now protect those that would die if left to their own resources in the wild. The whole pretext of the story was that Mother Nature "eliminated" the less-than-perfects from the system, so the species "continue to improve."

For instance, I have to wear glasses. I cannot see far-away well. Been like this since second grade. So if I were in a hunter clan, I would be worthless, and quite possibly would be brought down by a lion or wolves. So my genes would not be replicated in a child and passed down through the ages.

I read the stories of the old testament in which God supposedly commanded the "chosen people" to kill every man, woman, child, and animal in a particular city when they conquered it. Knowing God as intimately as I do from my three trips to "heaven," I can tell you that he never gave that command to the "chosen people!" But never the less, we still let religion lead us down paths of horrible things. Like the Crusades. It appears God's solution to Mother Nature’s utter uncaring vicious cruelty is a civilization that, at least in this country, respects human life.