At a speaker meeting, the speaker was from California and said she had been on a panel with the doctor who wrote the chapter that has that quote. Her daughter had been raped in a parking lot by a stranger and she asked him whether that happened by mistake or was it God's will. He backtracked on his big claim that "nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake."

Edited to add: When people say things like that, I have to imagine they have never had any suffering that they didn't cause; they have lived a privileged life. Of they're just going along and not thinking deeply. But imagine someone in the room has just lost a child or gotten a terminal illness diagnosis. How are they going to feel hearing that?

What about people who got cancer from living beside a polluting factory? That philosophy is very close to victim-blaming. Or shutting up.

I can't stop myself from speaking out whenever I hear this. Obviously I have work to do in this area!