And I don't think this is necessarily an atheist viewpoint. It's just evidential. Like even if you want to assume an omniscient and omnipotent power behind the whole thing, you have to look at reality and it's blindingly obvious that good and bad things happen apparently at random and with no reference to deserving. Even if you rationalize that everyone who suffers and dies ultimately does so for some greater good, it's necessarily beyond their understanding or desires. Which stretches the idea of "having your back" to a ludicrous extent.
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And I don't think this is necessarily an atheist viewpoint. It's just evidential. Like even if you want to assume an omniscient and omnipotent power behind the whole thing, you have to look at reality and it's blindingly obvious that good and bad things happen apparently at random and with no reference to deserving. Even if you rationalize that everyone who suffers and dies ultimately does so for some greater good, it's necessarily beyond their understanding or desires. Which stretches the idea of "having your back" to a ludicrous extent.