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Your anger comes from trying to reconcile your own view of goodness with the religious view of goodness. Your own view of goodness is probably based on fairness and the well-being of the deserving. The religious view is "whatever God wants is good."

Then when bad things happen, you are told either that this is what God wants, or that He doesn't choose to interfere at this time because withholding action will supposedly lead to a better outcome eventually (when people finally learn to please Him.)

That the innocent are ground up in the process of people learning to please God then suggests to you that God's top priority must be teaching people to please Him, and therefore that is the only thing that is good.

Finally it occurs to you that your view of good--that which benefits humanity--is not compatible with the religious view of good--that which pleases God. At this point you either abandon your own views and masochistically submit to the idea that we are nothing but toys for the pleasure of an infantile, selfish God, or more likely... such a God could only be the creation of infantile, selfish minds who created Him in their own image.

That's when you realize the whole story is made up, like Santa Claus, there is no one up there, and the whole story came out of the Middle East anyway (there's your first clue).

Now there'll be about 30 attacks on me and people pinging the moderator to get me banned. ;^)