Any one with omnipotent power who would choose to have suffering on such mass scales is beyond prick and bastard status and unworthy of reverence.
And I have come to the point of recognition that any one with omniscient power would actually see, and FEEL, the suffering. And if he/she/it were all-loving (omnibenevolent), he/she/it would prevent it! Thus, the entity described to us by religion as a deity is, as you've eloquently observed, a "bastard ... unworthy of reverence."