How does religion explain birth defects?

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

As I already explained before, there is both good and bad in the world, and if the bad things never happened in our lives, then we're going to be less appreciative about all the good things that we already have. And secondly, the sufferers will get their payment of the good that they deserve in the next life and it's going to be proportional to how much they suffered.

Unless, of course, they were gay or worshipped the wrong religion. I can't help but wonder, of those pictures you've linked earlier, what all religions those individuals ascribed to. I also understand that the quality of life improves dramatically from the benefit of humanity's godless science and not the hope that their lives improve after they're dead.

That's... horrifying.
Birth defects aren't proof or disproof of god's existance. They're disproof of what people regularly call 'god's everlasting/eternal love of humankind.'

I don't believe that God's love is eternal/everlasting/universal either.

But, I believe that His love is greater than His anger because this is what was told by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), in which he said, "When Allah decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him (the following): 'My mercy prevails over my wrath'" (Hadith Qudsi # 1).

How many genocides (caused direclty by this creator) and lives enshrouded in pain and living torture does it take for a god to prove his love?
That's a massive twist in belief and morality you have to spin in order to allow a murder to prove his love by murdering and torturing his own children.

Then god can go fuck himself.

Whenever you speak evil about God, you're not speaking against Him, but only against yourself, because your own words will come back to you one day (or in the afterlife). Uh oh.

No. What minimalist has done is speak against the guy with a wrench.
If that guy broke Minimalist's legs, it wasn't minimalist's fault.
God holds all the supernatural omnipotence, but it's no less his fault for eternally torturing his own children for misbehaving over a comparatively brief existance on Earth.

It's downright assinine and any being that calls this morality is delusional.