The pain, death suffering are as real as anything else, but religous wars and misunderstandings are nothing other matter of symbolic interpretation, human objects, words and meaning, terminology, definitions ... one person's Simulator is another person's God ... you do not know the nature of God. You don't even really know what words are orher than what you have imperfectly learned in your imperfect life. Without the Simulator giving you your simulated Life, you have less than nothing, ie you don't even have the beginning of a clue of what the [simulated] word 'nothing' might mean.