Lets say we were to put aside all the evidence that a God is non-existant. For me, the BOTTOM LINE is that there could be NO compassionate God that "loves" everybody and "controls everything," that would ever allow innocent children to starve to death and die of disease in parts of the world that He created. Did you ever see the Unicef commercials...one came on the other day, my daughter could not look at it...where is THEIR SANTA CLAUSS, where is THEIR EASTER BUNNY?? Theists think that if everything is "hunky dory" in their own little world, that there is a God. They forget ( or choose not to ackowledge) that there are other parts of this world, that God created, where there is disease, starvatrion, and death. If theist will say that " well, the children are going to heaven," as was posted the other day, then WHY did God have to make them suffer so much whi le they were here? What was the point ? He made their lives miserable every second, only to take them into heaven? I'm sure those poor kids would MUCH rather have had an easier time of it, and have lived their lives on this earth, rather than get excited about what was going to happen after they perrished... ( that goes for anyone) not that they would even undertstand that. It's just maddening!!!