Did God just admit to his followers that he's a psychopath?

[IanHulett]

Surely an omnipotent god who is alleged to be good could alleviate suffering and do away with evil.

Our perspective is much different depending on whether or not we believe in eternal life.  If life is eternal, then life here is not even a blip on the radar screen.  If you believe that this life on earth is all we have, then I can be more understanding of you opinion of God.  God obviously wanted the possibility of evil to exist since he gave us a free will and created the "tempter".   He also wanted there to be suffering here because he created killer storms and diseases and so on.  I look at suffering as probably what we go through to form us into the type of people we are to be throughout eternity.  I don't know that this is true, but it's possible that those who suffer more here will will enjoy eternity more.  If you want to be a US Marine, you must go through rigorous training and pass numerous tests, as you are formed into what it takes to be a marine.  This is true of other things that we strive for.  God is forming us to be the people we will be for eternity.  I don't view suffering itself as evil, nor do I consider God as evil because he causes us to live in an environment in which we suffer.  As I pointed out earlier, we purposely bring children into this world knowing that they will suffer.  We could use birth control, and still have our sexual pleasure, without purposely bringing poor little children into this world of suffering, but we know that there are a lot of worthwhile and enjoyable experiences here and good reasons to be living here.  God also gave us the power and the freedom of choice to make the world a better place.  If we truly loved our neighbors as Jesus told us to do, we could alleviate hunger and much disease and suffering, but too many of us don't love our neighbors.  That's the way God made it to be.  I don't worry about why he made it this way.  I'm just confidently living my life under his guidance, knowing that this is just a blip on the screen.

You DO realize that that argument has been refuted what seems like millions of times over, right? Why do you guys insist on using that argument? 

If God is all knowing, then he wouldn't need to test his followers, because he'd already know the outcome. He'd know if they'd betray him from the start. He might as well use his psychic powers to see into the future, and kill those who will end up betraying him before they are old enough to make their choice... Oh, wait, that's one of the many reasons why I hate the character in the first place. The more humane thing to do is not allow them to be conceived, and why prepare them, when he's all powerful, he can do whatever he wants with the flick of the wrist, and make them already prepared without having to subject them to torture? Can you see why religion makes no sense?

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sadism only applies to humans. god is no man, so if he would exist, it's normal for him to do whatever the fuck he does

But wait... God takes pleasure in punishing the sexually immoral. He sounds like a sadist to me. 
Wait, what did that sign just say?