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I’m not necessarily a theist, but this overused argument is flawed. It could be that terrible things happen because, for whatever reasons that could be incomprehensible to our teeny human brains, these terrible things happening are necessary to serve a greater good or purpose for the long run.
What that purpose could be, I have no friggen clue. But humanity has near zero understanding of the universe beyond us (I’m talking about the answers to fundamental questions; why are we here? Do we have a purpose for existence? Etc) and to claim that there is 100% nothing existing beyond ourselves is just as ignorant as claiming there is some personalized God directing everything. We have no fucking clue what’s out there, and anything else is the ego talking.
In such a case as you describe, this god either:
A) Would not desire faith, as it has concerns far grander than whatever some malformed ape thinks about it.
Or
B) It would not be worthy of faith, because it has the capacity to reveal these machinations in exchange for this obeisance, and chooses to watch us suffer and still expects us to thank it for our suffering.
Or
C) It would not be worthy of faith, because it has decided to test us, like some cosmic Jigsaw. Fuck that.
I hold with Stephen Fry: if I were to discover that god exists after death, my only response would be "how dare you". If it did exist, it would not be an entity worthy of our faith, let alone love or admiration.
That's a lot of words for have faith.