Retort to Oedipus

Predestination.  Today in the Christian religion, we to have pre-destination;  God knows what we will do and what is going to happen to us in the end.  It's already decided, the things we do on earth can't change that.  But if we go around living like, "oh well, i can't change my destiny so I'll go kill someone" you will end up in hell.  So we must live for the Lord to receive his forgiveness and end up in heaven.   Oedipus thought he could beat his predestination of the Gods.  He was cursed from birth to kill his father and lay with his mother.  Even though he tried to escape his fate, it landed him smack dab in the middle.  I have pity for this man, he really did nothing wrong, but he could have not killed the man on that road.  He does have anger problems, and maybe if he could tame that, he wouldn't have killed that man.  But, he still would have went home and married his mom.  It's just a lose, lose situation for him.  That's what a tragedy is!  Someone has to "lose" so we can learn from it.  If he somehow got off the hook, and the plague lifted and the town was saved!; we learn nothing.