(October 2, 2021 at 8:49 am)Ahriman Wrote: Like I said before, God is not "benevolent" since He doesn't go out of His way to be good, and doesn't treat everyone equally. But He does answer prayers.
In 2019 an estimated 5.2 million children under 5 years died mostly from preventable and treatable causes. Children aged 1 to 11 months accounted for 1.5 million of these deaths while children aged 1 to 4 years accounted for 1.3 million deaths. Newborns (under 28 days) accounted for the remaining 2.4 million deaths.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheet...-mortality
Let me guess: God did answer their parent's prayers, but the answer was "No".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"