The problem of evil/suffering when it comes to children

[Reforged]

God works in mysterious ways to obtain unknowable but most assuredly moral goals beyond the ken of mortal minds. Goals that accomplish the greater good. We know this because the concept of God is by definition the most moral an entity can be. He is morality. How do we know he exists? Because without some basis in reality the very concept of such an entity would be incomprehensible to us. So removed it is from anything we encounter in our day to day lives yet it is imprinted upon our minds as plain as day. The concept is perfection, the reality is God.

This is the train of thought required to rationalize an all-powerful moral authority who sets into motion a chain of immoral events and does nothing. The words vary but this is as high brow as it gets when it comes down to it. It has extremely low persuasive power on its own to anyone but a child but thats not important.
The people who actually convince adults with this argument successfully don't actually believe in its validity. It just turns out to be the right tool for the right job for that particular person, then that person regurgitates it and it doesn't work because they're a clueless amateur using a hairpin to pick a yale lock thinking that its an actual key. Although not everyone is weak minded we are all emotionally vulnerable on one level or another. Its just a matter of knowing the right pressure points. Fear of death, fear of loss, fear of being unimportant, loneliness, guilt, the list goes on. We all have them to different extents. We all have sheer points, we all have tumblers. Noone is immune.
The right words will draw upon these feelings without you even realizing thats what they're doing. The right words will cause you to warp your reasoning to fit them. The right words will change how your brain works. I find that fascinating.