Yes, I am in agreement. I personally do not believe that God (however you conceive her) cares, in the nicest possible way, what we get up to. I don't think God is a micro manager. The concept of God as some kind of cosmic Santa, keeping a big ledger of who has been naughty and who has been nice, punishing the wicked and rewarding the 'good' individually and in detail is a popular Christian concept, but I just don't buy it, personally.
We are human and therefore fallible. Difficulties are always put in our way and it is up to us how we learn to negotiate them. This is called life. This is how we evolve. Sometimes we make mistakes and choose poorly. The results of that are the fruits of our labours. 'Karma' is simply a word for the process of negotiating life on this plane in my view. It is up to the individual how they choose to do that. It is neither good nor bad. It just is. Luckily we have many, many lives in which to learn and improve ourselves, our actions and our thoughts. But, there is no compulsion. If we choose to spend one lifetime after another being a murderer, lazy, cruel, greedy, selfish, unkind, whatever - hey - there are no rules as far as I'm concerned. If we choose to try to live life with love, gentleness, generosity and service to others. Great. We will no doubt have a much more pleasant time as a result of that, at the same time as making life more pleasant for others.
Why would an all powerful deity set up a system where we have free will and faults, desires, urges and so forth, then punish people for not following some set of cosmically defined 'rules'? It makes no sense. This is my view. Others will have different opinions, naturally.
.i agree we attract the ppl who beat us up.
Wasting time and energy on self-pity "poor me, why does all this bad stuff keep happening to me" or blaming God or the universe or fate or whatever for our 'bad luck' is fairly natural, but achieves nothing.
People will behave badly from time to time. This is life. They probably have their reasons, whether misguided or not. We have no control over that. Most people are doing their best, such as it is. Whether we attract these 'bad' people into our lives or not is moot. We could get into an esoteric discussion about how everything is an illusion and we all create our own realities and so on and so forth. However, either way, it is always within our power to react towards the mistreatment of others with compassion and understanding or just give them a wide berth depending on our own assessment of our abilities at any given time.
HH The Dalai Lama, a very accomplished scholar of Mahayana Buddhism, is always eloquent on the subject of compassion:
Compassion compels us to reach out to all living beings, including our so-called enemies, those people who upset or hurt us. Irrespective of what they do to you, if you remember that all beings like you are only trying to be happy, you will find it much easier to develop compassion towards them. Usually your sense of compassion is limited and biased. We extend such feelings only towards our family and friends or those who are helpful to us. People we perceive as enemies and others to whom we are indifferent are excluded from our concern. That is not genuine compassion. True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility. To act altruistically, concerned only for the welfare of others, with no selfish or ulterior motives, is to affirm a sense of universal responsibility.
http://www.spiritsound.com/bhikshu.html