nj, you've quoted igilug out of context, he said "the possibility that .... "
The problem of innocents suffering is one common to most religions, though.
But your last point is very relevant. With around thirty major religions (including atheism) and their variants all insisting that they are the only way - logically they are all wrong.
Organised religion is a curse in itself. For most of us, we'll only find out for ourselves when we die. I think all those who have (I was going to say "nailed their colours to a tree" but ....) given their lives to one faith or another will be in for a surprise. A pleasant one though, unless they take bitterness against competing faiths with them.
