(February 25, 2020 at 10:10 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(February 25, 2020 at 9:51 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: That scene isn't exclusive to any "free non-Muslim world". But my question, AllAss33, is why your imaginary friend allows this kind of thing.
Life is a test for humans, you see all the suffering and all the bad things to test you:
-Either you do good
-Or you do bad
Whenever the test overwhelms you in this life, you die. Simply nobody can inflict infinite torture upon you but God, the moment for the very long torture -for those who deserve it- is called "judgement day".
You sound like a Christian, but to be fair, it is the same god of Abraham so.
A"test" is something you take in school. A "test" is something you take to get a spot on a sports team. A "test" is something you take to get a job.
How is a "test" for a 3 or 4 year old child to get cancer? How is a "test" for a child to die from famine or war?
You might have a better argument for adult suffering, but even then I don't buy this line of logic. I watched my late mother die slowly over a several week period. It was extremely painful for her. You tell me what kind of "test" that was for a lifetime public school teacher who never committed a crime in her life, who took care of me. A woman whom if it were not for, I'd be living in the streets right now.
Pain and death are not "tests", they are simply an unfortunate part of reality. Bad things happen to good people, not as a "test" but merely because bad stuff happens in life. No magic needed, no "test" to be had.
To call our finite lives a "test", to me, cheapens the worth of life.