How do christians (or any other religious followers) justify suffering?

Why would a 3 week old baby need to be raped by two men in a small African town because they believe having sex with a virgin cures AIDS?

Please, I welcome the justifications for the suffering of that infant, and the suffering of the baby girl's mother who had to find her....

I am not saying anyone justifies THIS ACT per se, but that there seems to always be an answer to why there is suffering in the world.

But one needs to look at what suffering really is. And this is a real case. The mom still hasn't gotten enough money for an AIDS test for her baby. $7.00 is all it would take, but the money, no matter how sent, would never arrive.

No god just men . suffering will always exist .

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Remember, Satan walks the earth too in spirit form.

The god of this world is the devil. Sometimes things we experience don't make sense to us, but I believe it is all part of God's bigger plan.

because there is no god

God gave us all free will. Sometimes our decisions hurt other people.

It is not for us, Christian or otherwise , to justify any of the evils that men do. If we did we would have to open our minds up to thinking like they do. That to me is a damn scary thought.Only God knows why and I am pretty sure he knows how to handle it. But my heart cries out for the injustice to the child and her family.

Not that caliber of suffering.

Personal mortification attunes one to God, as i have chosen it myself, but events like the one described goes against any sense of decency

What does that have to do with Christianity?I have read no where in the Bible that raping an infant is Godly.
Perhaps if they found God and learned to keep their ***** in their pants life would improve.

it was satan not god ok .

No Christians wouldn't justify that.

How does Honda justify my wifes totalled Honda. Well they didn't make the car totalled. and God didn't make the world to suffer. My wife wrecked the car, and sin has destroyed the perfect world, man did that, but don't worry, God will fix it back some day soon:)

Sin causes suffering.

As you can see by our world today, much sin much suffering.

(Very sad about the baby and mother.)

I do not justify rape, murder. I allow any man who does such a act should be killed personaly. Where do you get thinking we believe this is ok? Saved people do not believe in such acts. If more people would get saved then there would be less stuff like this. Its you non- saved people who are doing stuff like this. So the question should be. How can you non- saved people continue rapping innocent kids?

You will have to ask God in prayer. He has an answer for you and for all of the other seemingly unfair tortures of children that he allows. I have no answer to give you. He will answer your prayer question. Please let the rest of us know. I do know that the things that God does he does that we might receive the greatest amount of good and that he might receive the greatest amount of glory. I cannot see the good or the glory in the rape of a three-week-old baby any more than you can, but then again neither of us is God and neither of us has his wisdom or foresight. God bless you.

All the suffering in this world is the responsibility of mankind. We did this to ourselves. God created the world perfect without hunger, pain, or disease. We had to have our own way instead of being obedient to God. So pain and death are our reward... Stop blaming God...Jim

Man is guilty for the majority of suffering in the world. What has the above got to do with Christianity or relgions?

The cow bears all sorts of physical sufferings like man.
Moreover, man still have to bear more serious spiritual sufferings.
So, for the One True God there must be the greatest wisdom
in it.
You cannot grasp that wisdom because you refuse to look deep into it, to meditate about it, to make great sacrifice for it.
Look, how can I explain to a mountain why the workmen dig it to get all its stones for their construction? How can I explain to the rice plant why we cut all its ripe ears of grains for our meal? How can I explain to a chicken why you put all her eggs into your boiling pot for your guests' breakfast?
You are more lucky than all of those created things: you have the power to think; please think.