An unanswerable question

[Angrboda]

After thinking about this question some, it occurs to me that it's less about the absurdity of religion than it is about the question of how we know that what our brains are telling us is the truth. Cops make life and death decisions all the time. We don't say, "What a nut job for killing that serial killer who was firing on unarmed civilians." And we expect soldiers in war to kill the enemy, not sit in their fox hole pondering whether the order makes existential sense or not. So I think, perhaps, the typical theist response might be recast as less an indictment of how they truly feel about their beliefs than it is one of answering how they feel about their own fallibility. Both theists and atheists may be put in situations where they are asked to take human life; it's more a matter of how much of their fallibility rests on them personally, versus trusting in what your brain and whatever authority is relevant are reliable. And as noted, both theist and atheist face similar quandaries. Which probably explains why counseling is typically mandated after a police shooting. I'm not sure the question as posed shows much other than how, by manipulating context, you can make anyone appear a monster.