people enact vengeance on other people not because they believe in God’s judgment, but because they don’t. Atheism and agnosticism, Volf said, are far more potent contributors to the cycle of vengeance than belief in God and his judgment. According to his logic, if there is no God and therefore no judgment, then human beings have nowhere to go with pain that has been inflicted upon them by others. If there is no God and no judgment, our only options are to suffer the injury of injustice on our own or to fight back
