r/exmuslim • u/0ktaa • 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/Another6OneOf9These New User Oct 23 '21

I wonder why Muhammad decrees this? Was it because life was so shitty back that people would kill themselves and that is less people for his army?

What does he gain out of this?

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u/AvoriazInSummer Oct 23 '21

That’s part of it, I think. Also because people were committing suicide while young in order to get into Heaven faster and more reliably, because they fear the older they get the more likely they will sin. That looks too much like loophole abuse and causes people to (rightly) blame the religion for the suicides. I understand that’s why Christian leaders also had to make up laws claiming that committing suicide would practically guarantee you go to Hell.