Knowing everything and allowing evil

[Welsh cake]

I hope you weren't personally offended Welsh.

Don't be silly, I'm not offended by you. You're more rational as a theist than I ever was, especially during my church-going-days. I don't think any of this is real. Some theists out there however do offend me, but that's only because some of them gleefully preach eternal hellfire for atheists like myself, simply because we don't share their beliefs. That they're idol threats does not negate the fact that they're still threats nonetheless.

I was just trying to point out how you clearly already prefer aloneness in the afterlife.

I don't believe there is an afterlife. Point I was making was if the Biblical god had somehow been proven to be demonstrably real, and he forsakes people or responsible for their creation and predestination to condemnation, I want -nothing- to do with him. If that means escaping to nothingness then so be it.

To answer your question, no. The trip isn't necessary.

Not the response I was expecting. You are aware you'll carry around an immense burden in the cognitive dissonance of believing in a benevolent deity that allows evil and natural evil to occur, right? That's not healthy for you in the long-run.