I agree very much that Hashkafa is a serious thing and shouldn’t be up to some author’s whim. If we wouldn’t care about our children, and ourselves seeing Kosher Hashkafa, why do we need Chareidi papers? I constantly see how people spit out their own ideas whether or not they actualy bothered to learn through the topic.
The actual question is a deep one, and shouldn’t be relegated to a high school class discussion. The Chovos Halevavos mentions three approaches on this matter. The third one, the one that he likes the best, is that both are true. It is a Gezeira and it is your choice. It is a contradiction, at face value, but they are true nonetheless. When it comes to accepting what happened, focus on the Gezera approach, when it comes to reckoning your actions or planning ahead, focus on the fact that it s all in your hands.
This is not the first Hashkafic topic that a newspaper has opined on. It is unfortunate how many people have their thinking influenced more from these papers than from the real source.