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No. There is no God and if there was one, most of the gore crimes in the pasage of history should have been stopped like human trafficking, slavery, child abuse and countless murders. If there is one and he is simply watching, he should not be worshipped.
My favorite part of the Abrahamic belief system is the answer to this, "ThAt'S nOt GoD - tHaT's ThE dEvIL'S wOrK." Which paints a crystal clear picture on how those who follow that religious system perceive personal responsibility. I can see how people from these religions learned how to pass the buck on personal responsibility if that's what their entity of choice does. God refuses to take the blame for its own creations and therefore so does its followers. Nice belief system they have there.
I don't buy this. We don't know why we are here, and we learn a lot more from painful experiences than happy ones.
There is both evil and good in the world. As far as I can tell, most people are good. But there are a minority of evil ones and they are much more interested in having power, so they work to get high up into our systems where they get the power they crave.
I'm sure the tortured masses of Unit 731 would be happy to know their suffering offered scientists more data points and we really needed kids to be raped and murdered, you know... for all the shit it teaches us.
It's fair enough to disagree, but I think the point being made is if God is good and he is all knowing and all powerful, then why does he allow evil to exist?
There are a lot of answers to that question, but the only one I can think of that allows for an omniscient & omnipotent god who is good is that the existence of evil must somehow, in a way beyond our understanding, be a benefit to the greater good. This can be a tough sell to the victims of that evil.
You put it on a better way than me, but yes, exactly.