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I don't know if I misunderstood you, but "making millions of people suffer horribly and needlessly for no fault of their own might just be the most ethical thing there is, you never know, so let's not draw any conclusions about God allowing that to happen." just seems like a rather unconvincing line of thought to me. It's essentially just saying "God is always right, accept that"
I guess god just gave us the moral understanding that his (in)actions are insanely immoral to test our unquestioned loyalty to him, or he just likes a little trolling. Or maybe he just doesn't exist...
Any God that could prevent the suffering of millions and still allow it is not a God worthy of your worship.
Or maybe they have an afterlife of imeserable bliss to offset the injustice they experienced in life. There can always be a different reason thought of, but to conclude to one or the other side is illogical. As humans we want to know definitively and either side accepts their position as truth because it's most comfortable. But in reality it's ok to accept people's beliefs one way or another because at the end of the day we're just trying to make sense of our illogical and improbable existence.
A shame you didn't reply to my comment from earlier, since the afterlife argument is used quite often in this instance while not actually resolving the underlying problem:
You're missing my point. It doesn't matter. None of it makes sense. It makes just as much sense to believe in a god as it does to not believe in one, because at the end of the day it's about an individuals coping with the unfairness of life, the inexplicable natute of existence and consciousness, and the inevitability of death. It's about fulfilling an individuals need for purpose and place and whatever makes you most comfortable and gives you peace at the end of the day, fine. Trying to convince one another's personal fantasies for our purpose in life is like trying to prove someone's favorite food shouldn't be their favorite food. It's all personal.
So this kind of post confuses me. Who gives a fuck what people believe at the end of the day as long as it's not hurting someone else and it gives the person peace. If one person's beliefs don't make sense to you or bring you peace, then you should believe something else. I don't get this hating on believers or non believers. Who cares?
All fair. You're simply having an entirely different conversation here. Should we respect people's beliefs and religious affiliations? Sure. Don't think anyone in this thread doubted that (or I haven't seen anyone at least). It's just not the point.
Maybe the questions of "what's the truth" or "how far does logic get us in terms of religious statements" are irrelevant to you. Then this post simply isn't for you. Some people, me included, find those questions interesting and worthwhile - although completely separate from your issue about respecting beliefs, illogical as they may be.
As far as this second issue goes: Based on the premises that bad stuff is indeed happening and people are suffering from it, the Epicurean paradox in my opinion very neatly explains why the abrahamic god cannot exist. I have no problem with people believing in him anyway; people also believe in fairies and ghosts and Santa Claus. Good for them. In the past I've occasionally encountered attempts to answer the Epicurean paradox from a religious perspective that struck me as very unkind; especially the attempt to belittle human suffering in itself. They come down to the notion that the suffering in this life is simply not that relevant in the grand scheme of things; it will be compensated or forgotten in the afterlife anyway; it's necessary; it's part of gods plan; or in any other way either actually good or just not that important. So in short: We get ignorant towards human suffering in order to avoid the paradox of it's existence. But by far most religious people don't think like that. They don't think about the Epicurean paradox at all, or they simply don't think it through. And that's okay.
It's also okay not to find any of this interesting. To me personally, my life, my relationship with myself and with the world, those questions were immensely important. Which is why I occasionally still participate in those conversations.
To add to your point, one of the reasons to have this conversation is to get everyone on the same page when trying to function as a community with a wide variety of beliefs: people are allowed to believe what they want to believe, but once someone starts trying to convince others their religious framework serves the “one true god” this framework exists to shut that down.
That's the problem with most organised religions.
It's important to set clear definitions of what one understands as "truth", "reality" and therefore "logical" to be able to have a meaningful discussion about this. And on the level of credibility, believing in stuff one religion preaches is as much worth as the other religion which at the end of the day is worth shit as there is no way to verify those. If I would say Iwe were giant pink elephants, hopping around on the moon and only imagining the world around us as we believe it to be, there would be no way to prove or disprove this as it is unverifyable in its nature.
Therefore, I prefer to label conceptions as truths which can be proven by the scientific method as its the best tool we have to produce verifiable facts about us and the world around us. Even if that would be an illusion, it's at least a reasonable attempt.
I'd rather admit that I don't know something than to just assume some sky grandpa or transcendal elephant goddess did it that way.