If the worst form of suffering you had ever encountered was a splinter on your foot, you would make the same claims. "After reading many, many stories about the absolute horrors of splinters, I have such a difficult time understanding a belief in a benevolent god..."
The suffering in the natural world seems terrible to us, but it could be nothing in the face of larger, unknown forms of suffering. We are limited by our imaginations, having no reason to believe we have access to anything approaching deep universal truths of suffering or divinity.
I say this as an atheist. Your argument struck me as a poor one.
Re:Gombe Chimpanzee War
by tempguy9999 on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:48AM
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> We are limited by our imaginations
"we"? You don't speak for me.
You sound to me like you've had a decent life and it's you that can't imagine (consider yourself lucky). Not everyone has your fortune.
Your argument struck me as a poor one too.
or a more obvious conclusion - god/gods just doesn’t exists
Benevolent god/gods just doesn't exist.
Re:Gombe Chimpanzee War
by zxcvbn4038 on Monday September 09, 2019 @12:10PM
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Maybe if we’re really nice to our metal overlords they will build one for us.
One of my favorite (or, rather, terror-inducing) examples is the parasitic emerald wasp, which uses its paralyzing sting to turn a cockroach into a "zombie" so it can drag it by its antenna into a burrow, then lay eggs on the roach, and when the larvae hatch they proceed to eat the roach, but in a specific order so that the organs necessary for survival are eaten last. Queen Cersei from Game of Thrones couldn't come up with more nightmare-inducing torture.