Religious discourse, through its interpretation of Gospel and non-Gospel events, constitutes an important factor in the formation of individual behavior, and it is reflected in the way a person discusses, deals with, and analyzes the issues and events in his life. For example:
After the birth of Jesus, Herod killed thousands of children in Bethlehem: “Then he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.” (Matthew 16:2)
At this event:
The religious interpretation comes to answer ((the question)): why did the King of Peace allow this catastrophe to happen because of His birth? Why does God allow the killing of children?
And this question turns into a standard by which every event in our lives is discussed, while the opposite question is rarely posed.
For example:
• If a group of citizens rises up to demand its rights from the authority, and the authority confronts them with repression and persecution, the question becomes: why did you demand your rights? Do you not know that you would be subjected to persecution?
Instead of the question being directed at the authority: why did you confront the citizens with repression? Just as the question should also have been directed at Herod: why did you kill the children, and not at the newborn Christ.
• Or if, for example, a girl returns to her home and is subjected to rape, the girl is asked: why did you return at this time, and why did you return by this road, and why did God allow this? The girl becomes responsible for what happened to her, and she allowed what happened to happen to her — just as God was asked about the reason He allowed what happened to the children.