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Imagine if God said "I didn't let you perform the test because I know the results, therefore you don't need to undergo the test". Then God sent people to heaven for their righteousness, or hell for sinning without them ever committing the good deeds or sins. Would that be fair?
https://quran.com/2?startingVerse=155
Verse 156 is what you will hear quoted very frequently by Palestinians in videos after a disastrous moment.
I don't think i will continue this conversation since you are giving me the unfalsifable orthodoxy loop here, and it's getting out of topic, so i just say that everything that gives them hope and lessens their suffering in their tragedy is good for them and it's understandable they resort to it.
The entire "free will" argument is nothing more than the Omnipotence paradox wrapped into a different jacket.
Omnipotence requires being able to do anything including, defying the concept of logic itself. The entire concept of God is by itself not logical, using arguments like "If there is an infinite past then we can never reach the present".
Still the universe exists, so the concept of the beginning of time breaks all of logic.
I more meant the problem of evil than paradox of ominipotence.
Yes, all evidence points to god not existing. Abrahamic god just strikes me as particulary cruel in most denominations, definitely not something i would like to worship even if i had.
Abrahamic faiths provide a reason for suffering existing, namely as a test with a reward (heaven) for the good or punishment(hell) for the evil.
I'd argue faiths which state that everyone goes to heaven after dying even if they were literally Hitler are true cruelty, because that'd mean there is no point to the suffering.
Except for quite a lot of them the reward have nothing in common with good or evil, some believe in predestination, some just require faith. And it's even before we get to their praxis. Heaven and hell itself are even arguable concepts. For me the concept of vague, mutable, contradictory and unverifable "test" is incredibly cruel.
Which ones do you mean?
Most Christian and Islamic branches. Traditional Judaism as well though watered down.
It's mostly praying to god, and if you're rich give your money to the poor. Not the most complex material
Branches like Christian universalism.
Up and including suffering genocide.
Isn't that just a collection of tiny sects?
Everything is relative to reward.
Of the major Arbrahamic faiths yes. There's also different religions such as the Druze which believe that instead of hell there's reincarnation which is more of an in-between path.
So, assuming every other factor is identical, someone being murdered in a genocide gets higher reward that someone living in peace?
From the Sunni Islamic perspective, which is what most Palestinians follow, yes.
That's incentivising the martyrdom
Rewarding martyrdom is not incentivizing it. The Palestinians didn't invite Israel to come occupy and genocide them.
In case of Palestinians no, of course not. But it did worked like that through history in various cases.