Righteous Living Not Calamity Insurance

Interesting dialogue. I suppose, for the sake of discussion (with the qualification that I agree with most you had to say) that I'd challenge the idea that righteous living is calamity insurance. I sure as heck wouldn't want to be Job, an innocent Egyptian first-born or Joseph Smith (all of who suffered calamity at either a personal or community level). Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that much of the pain we suffer is a natural consequence and that the "undeserved" tribulation is something to test our metal.

--KL