If Leibniz is correct, and this is the best of all possible worlds. (because a perfect god can only create a perfect world with perfect being [only perfection can flow from a perfect being]) then Leibniz will tell you that you should rejoice and that suffering is human error - a perspective/framing problem.
This is crucial for Leibniz and christianity.
Consider our most recent tragedy and the resultant suffering: Uvalde.
Leibniz and other christians will tell you that from a human point of view, this is tragic. But from a god's eye point of view, one will see the fuller picture, the picture with the future and how the tragic became rolled up into a change for good. Theoretically, gun laws were passed and future school children can go to school and not be gunned to death with war machines while learning their ABC's. Perspective. (This is often done with the Holocaust.)
But what if the parents don't want their children to be pawns or sacrifices for a future good? What if the parents want their kids alive? What if the parents ask why previous children, say Sandy Hook children, could not have been the critical mass in god's perfection to roll up into the change for good?
What if the Uvalde parents question god's perfection? What if they question if this is the best of all possible worlds?
What if we as a culture, begin to question the public health consequences of christian thinking and christian doctrine? What if we begin to recognize that personal beliefs are a public health issue?
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