If I was Evey and I found out I'd been manipulated like that, I'd have said, "oh hell no," and kicked V's ass for that.
One thing your failing to see is that all that she went through was a replay of what V had gone through. He was teaching her to be him so that she could take his place. There was nothing she had gone through that he had not gone through himself and grown stronger because of it.
Anyway, the idea that this life is a "probationary state" is kind of like that for me. You get to the end, having suffered, sweated, loved and bled, only to be told that it was all a "test"? Those folks in the concentration camps were just trying to get an "A" on Heavenly Father's little exam? Hell with that. I'd rather believe it's all meaningless than believe God is pulling a "V" and subjecting people to torture just to perversely test their mettle. He may be the brightest of the intelligences, but that doesn't give him the right to set up an entrance exam for admission to his celestial utopian republic and send all the failures to the "other" kingdoms.
Heres a little insight. Not all men are created equal. that's a lovely concept, but its not true. Everyone is different, and we all have different abilities and individual strengths. We all have to find our strengths and talents and develop them.
that's a funny thing I see in the church, this concept that we all need to conform to an ideal and become some sort of cookie cutter format Molly Mormon and Peter Priesthood. Its not like that at all. We set moral boundries and goals of personal purity, but how we operate withen that frame is up to us.
that's one of the reasons we are supposed to do our home and visiting teaching. We get to know the strengths and abilities of others as well as the shortcomings and weakneses. We learn what strengths they have that we can draw from and what areas we might be able to assist them in.
If God was really good, he'd let us all participate in the celestial society on equal footing from the very beginning, and let us work through things and learn from our mistakes in real life as a community. Sort of like what we do here on earth. Frankly, the celestial kingdom sounds a bit too much like Mensa for my taste.
Somethign that might help you is a rereading of Abraham Chp.3. Verses 1-17 talk about the lord showing Abraham his numerous creations. If you couple these verses with the other books of Abraham you see that God organizes the various particles of the universe, melting them down and purifying them, and constructs the various worlds that we see spread out across the sky. These planets do not all turn out he same. Some worlds are large and used to set time and the order of things.
In verse 18 he states the words "as also..." meaning that just as there is variation in how worlds are formed, so also is their variation in the creation of spirits. Some are more capable of sustaining life and setting things in order than others.
In this life we are given the opportunity to use our talents to show what we are capable of. No doubt some of us are born into far more comfortable circumstances than others. I think a gfreat part of our judement day will be the showing of the long term effects of our choices. How one mans poor leadership or a mothers poor nurtuing can affect their posterity for generations to come.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
I have had some of the same concerns myself, which leads to the whole question of progression between kingdoms.
