What would you do if you found out God existed

[drfuzzy]

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A god who killed every puppy, kitten, cub, fawn, etc., on the planet because he couldn't get a simple think like a human right deserves no respect even if he does exist.

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Ask him who massacres sheep daily to eat; or who burnt trees to make "long rifles that shoot projectiles at cubs", or who locked animals from their natural habitat and called them "pets", who knew plants breath yet insisted on rolling them in cigarettes; ask him who crucified followers of Jesus; ask him who fought WW1 and WW2 and killed about 70 million people for reasons not related to religion or whatsoever; ask him about serial killers.

But also; ask him about the rain that comes down to grow gardens. Ask him about mothers and their natural care for their kids; even animals. Ask him about the cycle of the Sun and the Moon. Ask him about the billions of years the universe remained a place that sustains life (us). Ask him about flowers.

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Aren't there less unfair ways to learn compassion? Also if there were no disabled or sick people there wouldn't be any need for those types of compassion?

Assuming we would still have complex relationships there would be plenty of opportunities to show compassion.

We can have human compassion without childhood cancer,  leukemia, bipolar disorder, depression etc.

It's not fair to the sufferers, in any case, that they have to be the one to provide the lesson.

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They are; if this life was the only one:

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Sura 29, The Quran:
( 64 )   And this worldly life is not but diversion and amusement. And indeed, the home of the Hereafter - that is the [eternal] life, if only they knew.

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Real life begins after we die.

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And we have our whole current lives to keep full of good deeds; taking the best choices no matter how we suffer; because it's the asset we'll use in the next life; in other words we get tested in this one to win our ranks in the next.

Take the wealthiest man in the world. He will have limited life just like you and me, eventually both of us will die, both of us will cease to exist. Equal. Nothing remains but our legacy represented in our deeds.

Human compassion is born from fear. If someone feared a certain fate; they'll develop the compassion because they picture themselves in the shoes of the sufferer. One fine example is how old people rarely understand the needs of their grand kids (they can't imagine themselves living a modern life). Or how some societies would never understand the cultural context of another (they can't imagine what the other society feels)

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So sad.  So pathetic.  Oh yes, I was raised in a group that believed that way.  Living in fear and slavish (attempted) obedience to a repulsive book of fairy tales, spending their lives in terror that the imaginary tyrant in the sky will send them to hell for the slightest doubt and / or minor infractions.  Spending the one life that we can prove we have in fear, believing that this entire life is just some warm-up or test to see who gets to go to heaven.  And for thousands of years, no one has been able to prove that an afterlife of ANY kind exists at all.