The two most sceptical about the role God had played in their rescue were Parrado himself and Pedro Algorta. Parrado had good reason, for like many of them he could see no human logic in the selection of the living from the dead. If God had helped them to live, then He had allowed others to die; and if God was good, how could He possibly have permitted his mother to die, and Panchito and Susana to suffer so terribly before their death? Perhaps God had wanted them in heaven, but how could his mother and sister be happy there while he and his father continued to suffer on earth?
