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I’m functionally an atheist. I certainly have a disdain for religious orgs.

I’d accept the argument that this, in fact, a test. If so, religious people are failing it.
- There is a novel, and damned if I can remember the title, where a rabi proposes that god commanding Abraham to kill his son was a test, which he (Abraham) failed.
- If so, religious people are failing it.
  
  How so?
  
  I might have misunderstood your statement. If this life is a test and the eternal afterlife is what they seek, how are they failing it?
  
  They don't care about a finite 90-something year life and would give it away for an eternity which is incomparable.
  
  The implication I’m making is that a moral deity that allows free will might allow bad things to happen as a test for people to act morally. Religion, instead has been at the root of problems and/or stood by while bad people do bad things.

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