I once mentioned that I don't believe in Karma, and all hell broke loose. I was given different tags. Some people felt that I was being blasphemous, others thought that I've lost it, the remaining felt I was being unnecessarily controversial.
I understand where these are coming from.
I know that the idea of evil people; which in most cases only refer to our offenders, being visited with evil do excite us.
The idea is an opium of the powerless.
We often think to ourselves;
"Since I can do nothing to them, my God or the universe will mete out evil to them. but does it always happen that way? Maybe in another world, but certainly not in this our world."
The belief do give us some sort of comfort and solace, where and when we feel like an ant before our oppressors.
I know words applies differently to different people.
Karma as the physical act of getting a reaction to every action is what no sane man can argue against. And last I checked, I was sane, so I can't possibly argue against that. But the retribution of evil to evil doers and the compensation of the good doers with good, is what many evidence before me does not agree with.
Haven't we seen renounced wicked people getting rich, enjoying life and some even living long?
Haven't we seen babies who know neither good nor evil, being born with disabilities some even dieing at the age of innocency?
How does karma work here? what did those baby do?
Let me leave you to answer that for yourself.
On a lighter; Some Nigerian politicians who have brought the country down, since independent, still have it better than the poor they have oppressed for centuries.
Cause and effect can be as simple as kicking a stone and feeling pains a result.
Infact if someone slaps you, you're the one receiving the greater part of the pain, not the person that slapped you.
Now thinking that some evil would happen to that person simply because you were slapped sounds absurd to me. Maybe it's just me.
Earlier on, I read a post where my friend 
I had this to say;
We can only keep fighting for justice, as the fight intensifies, the good will win sometimes. Emphasis on sometimes.
Life is not a movie.
The good don't always have it good. The evil don't always have it bad.
That's why I can't believe in karma.
If I wasn't a Christian, threatening me with a machete would make me to come to you with a machine gun to drop you dead. I won't be hoping that some evil will happen to you. Because I know it might not.
Similarly, l try helping out my helpers, not just hoping that some good happens to them.
But I'm a Christian. I thank God for the heart to forgive. I forgive without wishing my offender evil.
Wishing an offender evil can cause heartache, cause it might never happen.
When I first went public with this thought of mine, a friend knowing that I am a Christian brought up the issue of reaping and sowing. In a bid to render my argument invalid.
He quoted for me
"Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reaps."
He might have seen me to be thoughtless not to have considered that before making my submission. Of course I considered that.
So how about that?
Now sowing and reaping is an agricultural concept.
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Even in agricultural where the concept is literally applicable, we don't always reap what we sow.
For a seed to germinate and become due for harvest, it's dependent on a whole lot of factors;
Viable seed, fertile soil, air, water, sunlight are needed. If some of these condition isn't met then the seed we sow can not even germinate, and reaping can not even take place.
Even when it does, another man can reap it, by means of stealing.
When the concept of sowing and reaping is used out of the context of agriculture, you don't have to be smart to know that the speaker is merely being metaphoric.
The speaker is making a comparison. Talking of comparison, we don't still have to be smart to know that not everything are comparable.
Everything can't be compared to seed and soil.
And if you wanna argue with me and you want to ignore the questions I raised here and go ahead to base your argument on that Bible text, lemme give you something to research on.
Go and look out for every instance where sowing and reaping was used in the Bible out of the context of Agriculture.
If you're diligent enough, you'll find out that seed is always used in comparison with thoughts, words, or attitude. And soil is mostly used in comparison with the heart.
Taking that into consideration, reaping what you sow can be can be illustrated this way;
When you conceive a thought, speak words or behave in a certain way, you are sowing a seed into your heart, the heart of your listener or that of your observer. If you or they allow such thoughts, words or habit to brood in the heart, more of it be will be reaped more of it, whether good or evil.
That's evidential.
What we continually give thought to, will eventually become an integral part of us.
What we keep saying, have the potential of either making or damaging us or our hearers.
What we keep doing will increase and become part of us. It can also influence those around us.
That's how sowing and reaping applies.
If we go by that. It can be said that;
he that conceives evil, speaks evil, or does evil, will keep getting better in the art of doing evil doing.
Similarly;
He that thinks, speaks and does good will only get better in the art of good doing.
That is the evil reaping evil.
And the good reaping good.
Now; if you think that evil will befall someone because the person wronged you, you might have to wait forever.
If you think that good will keep on coming to you because you do good to people, you are living in fool's paradise (no insult intended).
"If an evil thing happen to your offender, how do you know that it was due what the person did to you? Is there anyone alive that haven't had his or her own (un)fair share of good and evil?*
