Better yet, they always act like their objections are the most original in the world. Christianity has been around for 2000 years. Things were worse then than they are now, yet they clamor on about the problem of evil as though people didn't think about such things 2000 years ago. If Christianity is so utterly unconvincing nowadays, why was it so alluring back then? We as a species haven't changed much. Surely if the ideas presented by religion are so patently ridiculous, we wouldn't even see religion in the first place, since nobody would be stupid enough to fall for such an obvious trick.
The Problem of Evil is a recurring one because people want to try to imagine an existence where we can't transgress against one another. You cannot sin, yet you have free will. The problem is that Sin as defined by Christians and Jews is a varied idea. The basic comes to the idea of a moral failing, the greater idea is knowing better and still acting wrongly. That's actually the biggest recurring theme in the Bible is knowing better and still doing bad shit regardless. There is unknowingly sinning and correcting your behavior, too.
The existence that would be sounds like a step-up from an animal, but below a human. You'd basically be a dog, aware enough to observe the world, but not enough to really see it. I don't really think we're ever supposed to get all the answers in this life. You try and fail to live a moral life. Some people suffer more, and some people suffer less. Some people are better for it and others aren't. I know people who've had siblings killed in front of them in an accident and intentionally and they've both made peace with it and God. I know people who've lost a kid due to a hot car and the two separated with split views on God after that.
I have my issues with people who act high and might about all religion. I'm anti-clerical and the Institutions that have built themselves around religion often are fucking cunts, but I view anti-theists and atheists as unknowing Samsons. They want to cut out a central pillar of civilization and replace it with something that can't bear the load.
The big problem I also have is acting like the Bible isn't a story about flawed people. Almost every Prophet, Judge, and King has a moral failing in the OT. Jesus, depending on the sect of Christianity, is perfect. The leaders of the Church aren't perfect. Peter is a fucking coward who denies Christ and Paul was a murderer. Most of the Apostles hide when Jesus faces execution and only John comes out to hide behind Mary's skirt while Christ is tormented.
St. Stephan outlines the best criticism of the Jewish people before he's stoned.
I go on about Christianity, but it effectively has the most worthwhile content to read about it's ethics and values. Modern Judaism is split between awful Reform, secular master race bs, Orthodox stuff that you need to be a 75th Degree Jewish Mason to see, or stuff that mixes Angloid fanfiction into itself for some garbage.
Islam is not worth looking into because it basically got rewritten multiple times and gets OT stuff wrong.
Non-Abrahamic stuff that interests me is Taoism and old Eastern Euro-Central Asian stuff.
Hinduism feels like a Shonen anime mixed with justification for the caste system.
