“The Problem of Evil” in atheism and in Islam

[Chili]

To get serious here, I think the PoE problem really only makes sense if you see God as a construction of man. A God with a relationship with man, a contract with man, and a promise to do good by man can be revealed a fraud pretty easily, since there is so much evil in the world, much of it directed toward perfect innocents (female muslims, starving infants, etc.)

But what about an actual, universe-creating God? What would good and bad be then? Given that there must be evil, then what would be the role of an all-good God? Presumably, it would be to promote the greatest possible good, and the least possible evil. And not only might that not lend great import to Aunt Effel's skin cancer, it might not even involve the survival of humanity.

There are then two issues: is a God that must allow evil really all-powerful? No, not in the sense that "God could make a stone that even He couldn't lift." But it may be that existence requires a balancing act between positive and negative forces, and that the good of God is in being around to separate them, thus allowing existence rather than a lack of it.

Evil is a human concept that has nothing to do with good in opposite to bad. It is only in man's fallen nature as social animal that evil can be conceived to exist. This would be inside Plato's Cave to make this distinction clear as the difference between inside and out. So why blame God if he is not part of life inside the Cave where we only see a flash of light every now and then to make it known that there is more to life than what is visible to us in the dark.

My point here that evil is not a problem, except for bleeders maybe and so is similar to buyer beware!

And where do you get the idea that the universe exist? It is just empty space, in the same way that time does not exist as not created to be.