The problem with evil for many religious people is the fact that if evil exists then god cannot, this is thanks to many philosophical statements that run like this.

You must remember that only recently (in terms of the existence of the human race on earth) have humans live in huge cites and only recently did humans feel the negative heffect of these natural disasters.

In ancient Egypt the people relied on the flood for their crops to grow and for the silt from up the valley to form on the river banks and so they could plant their crops in the fields and they would grow. They called it a miracle sent from god not a disaster.

Whenever a Volcano erupts it leaves arable soil on it’s sides so perfect for planting crops on and before modern cities there would be nothing for the lava to destroy so that wouldn’t be a problem either. What hazard would an earthquake cause if again there was nothing to destroy and the same things apply for wind and rain?

So why does god let man do such awful things like Hitler did? Well an all loving god must give man free will or the world wouldn’t be so great if you couldn’t choose what you did and god chose it for you.

So we come onto the next problem of evil;

1. God is the author of everything
2. Evil is something
3. Therefore god made evil

But as I said earlier many natural evils were actually good so god made good things.

And the same applies for;

1. God made everything perfect,
2. Imperfection cannot come form perfection
3. Therefore perfectly created beings cannot be the origin of evil
4. Therefore god must be the origin.

However I believe that this statement is the truth as I do not believe in god;

1. If god was all loving he must want to destroy evil
2. If god was all powerful he could destroy evil
3. Evil exists
4. The above two statements cannot exist in the same world,
5. But evil does
6. Therefore an all powerful and loving god doesn’t exist even if a partially powerful and loving god does.