Wabble Wouzer

Usually I'm always reminded of this little detail when I see news stories on either tv or in print.

Take for example a nasty car accident where a child is present with their two parents. Parents die and the child lives and later on the child, grown up since then, recounts that they had to turn to god to understand why, took it as a test of their faith and was meant to make them stronger individuals so they can continue on.

How what always irks me in that is that if god did knock your parents out of play to "test your faith" then he must not have liked them all that much. Same goes for when a person gets cancer and, thanks to doctors and technology, survives and thanks god even though by that same token god gave them said cancer. Now sure you can say god took the child's parents to heaven and they're riding a unicorn amongst fluffy clouds now but then couldn't god could have just killed them all and made them all happy?

I suppose it's the reasoning like this that always draws me to religion or, more so, the people who follow them. Do they make these leaps of supreme mental agility to assuage the real problems of life and so they don't lose the building blocks (their faith) that they built their foundations on? Or at least think they built their foundations on? Do contradictions like this ever get to christians or any other people who consider themselves religious? Is it easier to just ignore them and make it work to your liking than to accept something else?

I’m just curious. Answer as you see fit.