Hall continues his sarcastic critique: “A final evidence of God’s compassion and generosity is that no matter how terrible anyone’s suffering might be it is apparent that ‘one human can hurt another for no more than eighty years or so.’ (p. 106). As for the suffering of the animal creation we can comfort ourselves with the thought that ‘it is most unlikely that they suffer nearly as much as humans do’ (p. 110).” 13 Swinburne’s comment that there is a limit to our suffering from human persecutors