I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?

[Cecelia]

There's millions of ways God could stop molesters if he actually existed, without interfering with their free will. He could give them a heart attack, send a tornado after them, have a wild animal attack them. He sent bears after some people after they made fun of a prophet being bald. I'd think child molestation would be more worthy.

And what precisely will a child who is murdered learn? What makes child molestation and murder part of the cycle of life? What kind of sick God blows the leaves out of the yard for a lazy child, yet refuses to do anything to save the life of a child who is pleading for their life? What will an 11 year old girl learn by being molested and murdered, her body dumped in the river?

"They go to heaven" doesn't work either, because they've still been allowed to suffer at the hands of a monster, and now have no free will. If there were free will in heaven, then bad things could happen in heaven as well.

The God you're describing sounds awful. Why would anyone worship him? Unless I guess he blew leaves out of their yard so they could be lazy I suppose.

Logically, I presume God doesn't exist. There's no good evidence of God. Just countless tales that could be anything from exaggeration to coincidences to any number of things. God need not exist to explain any of these things. But if God does indeed exist, he must answer to why he would allow a child to needlessly suffer for the free will of a monster. It all goes back to the problem of evil. If God is able, but not willing, then he is malevolent.