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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always wonder about people that believe that their god is so good, has created this loving world just for us, etc.   I would love to take a survey of religious and non religious people and ask how THEY would have designed a world/people if they were god. would it look anything like this?  Would it be on a rock that inherently contains features that will occasionally kill thousands or more, inhabited by beings that have such a drive for survival as to be cruel to one another and to other creatures on this planet, where 99.99% of species have already become extinct?  I could go on, but I think you get my drift. Would this be anything like what a loving god would create?   I'm an imperfect human and I can think of millions of better ways to design a world and beautiful creatures to inhabit it. 
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+1 too. This has been raised a number of times in these threads, and the believers never directly address the point. [/quote]

May be that they don't address this point because it stumps them.  It's easy for them to overlook unpleasantries. They just block out anything that doesn't fit into their worldview, which is shared by many, so it seems more likely, even though the concept of eternal life is ridiculous.

People do this kind of stuff all the time, very frequently in choosing a mate.  Everyone but them see why the match won't work.  And eventually, maybe they see it too, after much suffering.

In the case of religion, there may be little suffering and lots of benefits (e.g., fitting in, socializing) and then it's just lights out.  No eternal reward, but no punishment either.[/quote]

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