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Autochron
God creates the world, God creates us to plunk down in it, decides that earthquakes and other such things happen to kill some of us so that the rest of us can 'learn' something, and claims to _love_ us? Sounds like a ****ing abusive relationship to me.
Ok, God makes the world and plops us in it, but what is the point of the world? Is it to make us happy? Do you think that is what it should be for?
From what I understand, heaven is the place designed to make us happy. Hell was designed to make people sad. Earth, that is to say the universe we know, was designed to have us figure out which we want.
Suppose God made a universe where people were never sad, were incapable of being hurt or feeling bad. What is the point?
Suppose God made a universe where people were always sad, were incapable of not hurting or feeling good. What is the point?
In both of these cases there is no choice in the matter, you just are the way you were destined to be. Your actions have no bearing on what you feel or what happens to you. Just as it would be cruel to create a being only capable of pain, it would be useless to create a being only capable of feeling pleasure. What are you going to do, prop it in a corner and watch it burble happily?
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