Theologians are an amazing group of people, they can make up anything, by finding vaguely relevant quotes in the Bible or the Koran, or by ignoring other quotes. The result is a mess of doctrines that have nothing to do with morality or helping people, but everything to do with re-inforcing their power over believers.
Since the bible was widely available, thanks to the Amsterdam printing press, most of its content has been shown to be self-contradictory, re-written, re-attributed, edited and censored to fit the political and moral bias of the time. Theologians can offer no evidence that their interpretation is correct, or even remotely accurate. To even argue that they can understand the mind of a god which only exists (if at all) outside the realm of our senses is a contradiction in terms and supremely arrogant and patronizing.
The problem is that there is no evidence that "God keeps loving us despite the evil that humans do"... Good and bad people get rewarded or punished regardless of their morality, religion or indeed Faith. The answer to 'Why bad things happen?" is pretty simple if you consider that we live in a natural world, with no 'supernatural' influence whatsoever, and the sooner we take responsibility for our own actions, rather than blaming others (different religions, women, different sexuality, etc.) the sooner we can genuinely help the world and humanity towards improvement and universal well-being.
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