If there are good Gods or whatever then why do they create bad viruses and let us suffer?
To suffer to do good is praised by believers but this good is made less good by the fact that you had to suffer to do it. If God made you enjoy helping others better it would be more good, for if it is as good as or better than suffering to do it, God would have no right to let us suffer. But he hasn’t so belief in God implies that happiness is a sin. God is therefore an evil concept. His defenders say that it is better to fight evil to achieve good than to have good on a plate which really means that the suffering is more important than the goal so good is not the goal at all. The process involving evil is better than the goal of goodness. It makes no sense then to say the goal is good. It makes no sense to say that God makes us suffer so that we will be happier to do good in future when he could make us like doing good better than we do right now and forever.
Even to say that the divine allows suffering for a reason is to at least partly approve when people are in anguish. If we denied the existence of God we would see evil as something that should not exist at all full stop. So we should not believe in God. Anybody could enact savage laws saying that God requires them to be observed for a reason only he is aware of. This still happens a lot. We might be able to bring good out of evil but that does not mean the evil should have been allowed to happen. I deny my own dignity when I believe in their God because I know that perfect happiness is my right.
