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And this reason is the same reason why you would teach your kids how to learn how to live.

It's a stupid reason. If God created us, then he created our brains and he knows that he could give us the capacity to treat each other well all the time so that we would not have to "learn" morality by causing strife on a global level all of the time. Especially since both God and karma wait until we are dead to teach us this, at which point it is far too late for this knowledge to be of use.

God doesn't even do this for the lowest life forms, so that there are even plants and microbes that can only survive by harming other creatures. Is there a punishment in the afterlife for parasitic germs that cause their host horrific suffering before killing them? Or for vines that choke the life out of trees? Or fungi that destroy insects from the inside-out? The list of examples of terrifying behavior by plants and animals acting on instinct is lengthy. Which means that they are wired --sorry, DESIGNED-- to cause pain and suffering and then death. Maybe it is time for us to ask why God creates so much suffering and discord instead of creating joy and harmony.

Maybe he's not there. That might be disconcerting, but imagine the alternative: maybe he likes to see misery and pain and suffering and death.