(In response to "If God exists he is evil. How true is that statement?")

This argument rests on a couple of assumptions:
1) It imposes human ethics on God. It imposes human judgement on God. In the same way your dog can't make judgement about you or even your 2 year old can't make judgements about you. This is on two levels--your kids aren't in a position to understand--they don't have enough wisdom and experience. Second, and most importantly we aren't in the position of power.

2) This misunderstands the necessity of free will for human life or love or anything we value to make sense.

3) It misunderstands that Satan is at the root cause of the problem.

4) It misunderstands the importance of spiritual and character development over physical pain. Even Olympic stars and championship athletes understand the value of training and stretching your muscles.

5) One analogy CS Lewis uses is a home remodeling. God loves us too much to leave us the way we are.