How do you explain the suffering of humans and animals if God exists?
Well, let’s start with the assumption that God exists. Because if he DOESN’T exist (as ScienceSwarmy postulates), then your question is moot. What you are REALLY asking, it seems, is IF God exists and IF he created the universe and everyone in it, then WHY does he allow pain and suffering of the creatures living in it? (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here.) The problem here is that you and I are so far removed from the plane of existance which God occupies, speaking either religiously or scientifically, that we CANNOT understand all his motivations in human terms. We simply are not capable of it. Let’s look at this scientifically (since this is where a larger number of people have questions about this): One of our current scientific theories postulates that our universe must have at LEAST eleven dimensions in order to exist as we know it. Think about it. Humans are three dimensional creatures inhabiting a four dimensional continuum (time included). That leaves SEVEN higher dimens
(A) What humans call ‘suffering’ is normal part of life on planet earth. Watch nature. Death is often violent and swift, nobody can complain. The human urge to project human emotions on animals is called ‘anthropomorphism’. It is absurd. A lion does not ‘murder’ a deer, it’s just having a meal. It is less worse than butchering farmed animals for consumption or stealing cow’s milk meant for its calf. * (B) Relax, there is no god. But it’s all make-believe. That’s why absolute faith and blind belief is essential for ‘membership’ of any religion! Both God & ‘soul’ are human concepts, which are not essential to live a good-ethical-moral-successful (GEMS) life …and enjoy it! The presence of ‘more than one’ gods or/and of just one atheist is enough to destroy the god-myth-superstition-delusion. * Chill, There simply can not be a God that behaves like some “fearsome, sadist, greedy, belief-obedience-submission-demanding, love-starved, prayer-expecting-answering-ignoring, possessive, other-‘fa
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