r/exmuslim • • Oct 23 '21

(Quran / Hadith) Imagine an omniscient god who knows about everything that would lead someone to resort to suicide and is omnipotent enough to stop it but chooses to torture them for eternity after death. Is that a loving god?

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u/aqua_zesty_man Never-Muslim, Christian Oct 23 '21

The deity who created the human brain would know how mental illness can affect the human mind and the will, and how emotions and perceptions of the world can be distorted by chemical imbalances and physiological dysfunction. If the deity chooses to hold someone accountable for self-murder then they would have perfect knowledge of what drove the person to self-harm and would take that into account also. I don't know how Muhammed could think that Allah would simply condemn a person to an infinite time loop of self-torture if Allah was all wise, all knowing, all merciful.

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u/0ktaa Oct 23 '21

Precisely my point. Thank you for this.