If argument can raise the problem of evil with equivalent personal force, then suffering has no unique epistemic privilege over rigorous philosophical confrontation with the claim.

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Rigorous(as used in academic and philosophical discourse): Careful, thorough, and following strict rules—the opposite of loose or casual reasoning.
epistemic privilege(Used to characterize the unwarranted assumption underlying IBE): A special predisposition or capacity on the part of human inquirers to reliably hit upon the absolutely best explanation when surveying possible explanations of data.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry): A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
problem of evil(Used as a basis for arguing against the existence of the God of traditional theism): The philosophical challenge of vindicating God's moral attributes (particularly omnipotence and perfect goodness) in light of the existence of evil in the world

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