We are all attached to life and well-being and continually menaced by various evils: sickness, violence, loss of liberty, disasters, sadness, and finally, death. Even our happiest moments are blurred by a lingering subconscious anxiety. This is our undeniable existential situation. Any answer to the questions posed in the title of this chapter assumes our anthropological, cosmological, and theological nature. That this is not the best of worlds in which humanity