Free will is the usual go to. What most don't realize is that free will is a logical paradox when it comes to a god, so then you have to start over.

The easier and more productive answer is that some people are sick and damaged and children should be protected from them, cause no god has showed up to do it for us.

Yep, the problem of evil gets them every time. Any god that lets little kids be born into starvation in India is not someone I want to pray to. Either he's all knowing and all powerful or he's not. If god is all that and allows it, god is bad. If god has no power, he gets no prayers

I never really understood the whole human suffering thing and God's will. Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden because of original sin, thus having to live a life of pain and suffering, then Jesus came and defeated sin with his sacrifice. Should've been end of story, yeah? So why are we still here, suffering for what should've been paid off? Why is human existence even a thing after the resurrection? You wanna see non-answers at its finest, ask those questions.

Just for the sake of argument , I will answer the way I believe a believer might . Since God is not a person [ou.org] , our's are the hands G-d has to rely on to do His work , as these songs illustrate .

Always brings to mind Stephen Fry's comments on Theodicy:

I've heard many times people claiming that god cured them of this and that.
And I always retort with ' why then has he never in the history of human beings cured an amputee'?

Did you hit him with any follow up questions about churchy involvements?

Don’t stop with the one example. What about the holocaust? Remember the Indonesian tsunami, cancer, traffic deaths, etc., etc. etc. Things stuck together out of particles of matter are simply going to disintegrate. We are changing and disintegrating as we speak. Things are as they are, and they are that way for reasons.

The wish for a divine Father, one who holds things together and grants our wishes—that was a foolish idea from the get-go. An alternative is to look at the world in a non-judgemental way—see it as neither good nor bad.

They will and do rationalize any and everything. They have to in order to be able to live in the secure world that they have created for themselves in the guise of religion.

There are so many occasions that could be stated but are overlooked by faith.

I've heard only a couple of explanations, and neither is satisfactory to me.

1. "God isn't omniscient and/or omnipotent and therefore cannot intervene." I heard this explanation from a Jewish leader, I think a rabbi. Okay, fine, but don't have the gall to tell me that the creator is all good and deserves to be worshipped when this second-rate deity of yours brought us all into being without itself possessing the skill and wisdom to do so ethically. Such a lackluster God should spend eternity begging us all for forgiveness and never receive it.

2. "God could intervene, but that would interfere with free will." So what? Where is the child's free will to not be brutally raped, terrorized, and psychologically damaged for the rest of their lives? Where is the murder victim's free will to live and not endure a violent death? Why is it only the offender who has their free will preserved? What sort of twisted morality imposes freedom for the wicked but denies it to their victims? Disgusting!

Because it is a rhetorical question. They just don't know how to accept or process the idea that there is no God.