On the other hand you hear religious people everyday say that we should be thankful to God for he has given us life. Let's analyse this, shall we!
God creates us out of nothingness to experience life and be put to the test. The vast majority according to the Abrahamic faiths will end up in a eternal torture of hellfire!!
Based on this scenario how can a merciful and an all-wise God creates beings out of nothingness just to torture them for eternity??? I am sure they would choose to go back to the state of nothingness they originated from!
It seems to me that our dear lord is nothing but an old fashioned sadist that takes pleasure in inflecting pain on others for no reason other than they have chosen not to believe in him???
The big ego has been dented and we should suffer for that, even if we did not ask to be brought to existence.
It's interesting that people who have never met or had any communication whatsoever can arrive at exactly the same conclusions.
Then again, I don't know how many people would arrive independantly at the belief that there's a despotic, sociopathic god that wants us to chop off the ends of our penises.
Yes, it is rather laughable that the Qur'an itself says, referring to mankind, 'very few of them are thankful.' As if being created as a slave and a piece of property were something to be thankful for. Brought into being, forced into a completely inescapable situation where one must either surrender the only thing one has, one's will, or suffer eternal and horrific torture.