One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.

[Aroura]

Also, isn’t it obviously one of those lies the powerful tell the impoverished to keep them from rising up?

Yes, life seems unfair, but after you die suffering from malnutrition or disease that I don’t worry about, god will make it all fair again. Oh and ps, poor and humble people are particularly loved by god! So you don’t want all my stuff. Got it?

What a long con. Thousands of years, still going strong.

The only logical answer is that life is a test, and that hardships are mere trials, to write our worthiness of our ranks in that afterlife.
Which throws the "love" theory out of the window: that suffering is made by God, and he is the lord of everything including reward and suffering.

I asked this once, and almost every other religious person on this site said life is NOT a test.

If you think it is a test, then can you answer why some people seem to have easier tests than others?  Like, one person might have a pretty uneventful life, live to be 90, rests easy in his faith, healthy loving family etc.  And another guy has his whole family murdered in front of his eyes, or has his children die of starvation.  

Also, do infants and small children get the same test, even if they die very young?  Like is it a test for the 6 year old who died of a brain tumor?  Is that fair to the 6 year old, or to the person who had 90 years of testing?