Yazidi slave-girl meets ISIS captor on German street.

I hope Canada apologizes to him on behalf of the world and gives him 10 million how dare she bring up the past and try to ruin his life.

Or at the very least make amends for his crimes by openly denouncing them, thus saving future generations from the horrors those like himself inflicted on others.
 
Free will being an illusion is a reasonable argument, but not the way you're making it. You're speaking as though you think free will should give you control over external factors, but free will is just about having the autonomy to choose your own reaction to external circumstances.
Thinking that having free will should give you the freedom/ability to choose not die is the position of an insane person.

Beyond that, you're using allegorical stories to prove the intentions of a fictional character, and complaining about it like a child who bitches about his parents while bemoaning the underlying unfairness of a life that they didn't adequately prepare him for.

Ultimately, if god existed and had to intervene in every evil act humans commit, before long the only rational recourse would be to annihilate the species. Citing from the bible a few exceptions to god's otherwise relatively consistent policy of non-intervention doesn't change:
a) that the whole book basically started with our receipt of free will, the significance of which is reiterated fairly regularly throughout - that reiteration going so far as to have god himself expressing regret at populating earth with humans;
b) that you'll have a bit of trouble using the bible (specifically after the arrival of Jesus) to justify the most egregious incidences of human depravity and destruction; or
c) that the bible's inconsistent authorship and accuracy of translation over time (and it's lack of a claim to anything else) make specific events it claims took place very questionable sources from which to derive a reliable psychological profile of god.

Using the israelites as a benchmark for the behaviour you expect god to adhere to is a bad starting point, since his covenant with the 'Chosen People' sets a precedent for interactions between the two parties that the rest of us shouldn't really expect to benefit from. The Israelites essentially sacrificed a degree of free will in exchange for protections not afforded to the rest of humanity.

On balance, god tends to act through human agents, who generally have a choice about whether or not to act as he instructs. That's the rule, you're citing outliers (sometimes exceptional ones) to disprove it.

On top of all of this is the fact that it is damned near impossible to determine what is good or evil (from the point of view of an immortal) when one's experience is limited to the contents and consequences of a single lifespan.

Eta: how did i duplicate my post 4 minutes later?:confused:

I beg to differ. The Original Sin™ is the first example of Godly intervention. Science helps us to control or mitigate effects of external factors. Outliers means there are exceptions, and having exceptions mean it is not perfect. Having outliers in God's decision means His decisions aren't fucking perfect.

There is maybe a god. But believing in God from a book is fucking stupid.
 
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