"Why do bad things happen to good people?" is the way we say it today. "Why art thou silent when the wicked swallow up the man more righteous than he is?" It is not only "Why do bad things happen to good people?" but why does a holy and a righteous God permit the unrighteous to swallow the righteous, the wicked to devour the innocent? It may happen, but why does God permit it, seemingly doing nothing about it?

It is bad enough if some outsider is the villain. It is intolerable when the villain is home-grown. What response is left to us if some of our own turn on us and do so deliberately, premeditatedly, simply because they are in a position to do so? It's like having the firemen start the fires, the policemen rob the banks and murder the citizenry, the government extort money from its su…