I don't believe God is real anymore, to be honest...

You've immediately proven my point though. The only way you can define comfort, or even contentment, is by referencing some wretched African with malaria.

I disagree entirely with your second statement, Respectfully.

God does not necessarily have to be all powerful, God does not necessarily have to choose what is good or evil, even if God decides what is good and evil it doesn't have to actually care. It can still choose to be evil

never read a single book on theology or religion in their lives and still lives with their parents

There will always be relative suffering, no matter how trivial.

If you have a molecular food reconstructor that creates whatever you want on demand and one day it breaks, that will make you suffer.

Horrible things don't need to happen so a saint can prove how stalwart he is. That's some kind of cult-speak for coping as to why your perfect master allows awful things to exist.

Heaven is just an unrealistic cope.
Would it feel like it does in real life?
Will you still have your motor skills and consciousness and will you look like a ghost or will you still be in your body?
Will you still have the urge to fulfill the Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

There is no heaven, its all a game where you get to experience life and its dynamics and mechanisms.

And how is relative suffering different from 'genuine' suffering? Why isn't children with cancer relative suffering instead of genuine? What would world without suffering look like? What would a world with a 'pleasurable degree' of suffering look like you think?

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You completely missed the point.
We don't typically think about starving African children with malaria, (at least I don't) when playing vidya or some shit.
I'm able to enjoy my vidya in a vacuum basically.

If the children in Africa where well fed and healthy I would still be enjoying my vidya the same amount as I am right now, because I'm enjoying my vidya in a vacuum, I'm not thinking about the starving African children.

Whether the reason I'm not thinking about them is because I'm too focused on the vidya or because they don't exist doesn't change anything.

Others don't need to suffer for me to derive enjoyment from things. Anything

That's a based boar

The point is it is impossible to definite joy without suffering. Yin yang. You need to suffer and have knowledge of suffering to know what joy is.

The semantics of what you're thinking about while playing video games is irrelevant.

>read this supplemental material and it will explain why my friend in the sky is the bestest ever
Those books would be bestsellers if they convinced anyone of anything. They don't.

*read Summa Theologica and didn't put it down and suddenly think, "Now I need to telepathically communicate with Yahweh, the Jewish titan and storm-bringer"

You are using a creature perspective to measure a creator. A computer would never understand human. A human would never understand god.

You don't really need to read up on theology to notice a retarded comment when you see one

I agree people who said 'lmao gond dont real cause bad thing' are pretty retarded

It's completely relevant. I can enjoy any activity in a vacuum without needing my next door neighbor to be a child molester in order for me to enjoy said activity

I can attest to the existence of the soul, entities outside of our perception, and the power of prayer, but I cannot be certain of a God. That's why I asked into the ether for God to reveal himself and I heard a name. I have held onto this name as God's true name for over a decade now.

But why can you enjoy things? Define joy without referencing suffering.

And I agree with that as well. There's no logical reason to come to the conclusion that if the universe was created by a thinking agent that said agent necessarily HAS to be good.

To believe that the universe was either created by a loving deity or wasn't created by a deity is a false dichotomy, and is indeed just as retarded as stating that that you need suffering in life in order to enjoy things

It's all "suffering", but on measurable levels. Most of us already live in the suffering-free world right now.

No predators, no bandits, no wars (most of us), no famine, no plagues (well, maybe a few). Unless a tragedy happens, most people are just fucking fine with very minor inconveniences.

Compare our lives to 1000 years ago. You were lucky to survive childhood, and if you did you either went out to war or you toiled until someone else's warriors came and killed you for fun. We're in a 24/7 party compared to that shit.

thank you I'm perfectly capable of recognizing idiocy when I see it

also I had to suffer through a religious education in school so I know all about their bullshit.
And I dont know what my living situation has to do with it but I own real estate and my parents are enjoying their retirement alone so ....

Feeling of great pleasure and happiness. Rather than just being content.

Now let me ask you a question. Would the world be better or worse without child rapists?

suffering and evil are almost exclusively caused by humans themselves

God cannot exist.
If god is perceived as an entity, he needs to have human consciousness for to make rules and create it in all human logic.

Having the idea that god has consciousness means he inherently possesses the human condition, as with humans or other being can feel pain and suffering or pleasure.

Shit doesn't make sense

Not all. Babies with cancer is a good example.
I don't think anyone would complain if that stopped being a thing

You're absolutely right.

And you are again proving the exact point I'm trying to make. You only define this world as a 24/7 party because in some other time and some other place there was an awful hellscape.