I find it somewhat strange that people who believe that this world is just matter in motion will go on and on about how God is not "loving" (aka "the problem of evil). How, may I ask, does what molecules zapped with electricity do to each other qualify as not "loving". I mean who cares if I want to make restrictive laws about sex? It all just neurons in my brain dude!
We (and by we I mean secular types with no theist faith) do not go on and on about the problem of evil until a person with theist faith waves their book around and starts proclaiming that "God says you must think this and say this and do this or you will go to Hell". A that point, if we had never heard of theist faith before we might well start asking questions (because it is not in human nature to accept something like that at face value, we want to learn more about it), and as almost every person of theist faith will do when faced with questions from a position of ignorance, we get told all about God and what His message is, and what He tells us about how to live our lives. Then some non-theists notice that on the one hand we are being told that God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent and yet the universe that he made the rules for allow evil, so we ask about that seemingly contradictory state of affairs.
Hundreds or thousands of years later, non-theists have still do not feel they been given an entirely convincing argument to that question, and because we still have people who come to us waving their book and saying "God says you must think this and say this and do this or you will go to Hell", and because we don't need to ask the basic questions because we know the basics of scripture from studying in school or from other life experience, it is convenient for us to skip all the preliminary stuff, and jump straight to the bits that we cannot accept about that world view. If we ever heard a convicing answer to that question, and the other questions that don't make sense to us about religion, then who knows we might accept the Word of God and become theists ourselves. But until those questions are answered convincingly we are unable to commit to the leap of faith necessary to do so.
Maybe that's a problem with us, or maybe it's a problem with the system, but it's definitely a problem, and while it remains unsolved then I'm sorry, but you're going to keep hearing these kinds of questions over and over and over again whenever we are asked to accept a theist world view as in any way binding over us, our thoughts, our actions, or our intentions.
