Compassionate people will help alleviate suffering where they can. This is a given whether or not you are a Christian theist or not.
The existence of God is not proven by the existence of compassion, is it? Also, suffering and death is a natural occurence you said earlier, Psac. (Although the bible says it is the punishment /consequence of sin--See Genesis and Romans.
How do you think that all this proves anything about God's love?
That the carpenter believed it was true is no proof either. He was as deluded as we all have been. Jesus believed in compassion, as do I.
Edited: It is easier to belief that we have invented God than to believe that there is a god who actually cares for us. I can believe that a jewish carpenter (as other gospels tell it) taught us to become true human beings in spite of the evil and greed that discourages compassion and selflessnes. It doesn't matter to me that he was the son of god.
Good examples are needed to help teach compassion. Jesus, stripped of diety, without pretensions for deity, is one of the best. But the Bible God has been a dry hole for a long time.
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