It's a good point. I'm fascinated by the fact that one of the common reasons for 'banishing God' is that He must be evil. I would love to hear what you think about how we define evil. Who decides what is evil?

Its certainly a valid point that a religion positing God would have to justify the evil in the world. However, if you posit, as Stephen Fry does, that there isn't a God because of evil I'd ask you to read this. This is Dr. Ravi Zacharias on the 'problem of evil'

'So after a lecture, one time a student got up and asked this question. He said, 'How can there be a God if there is so much evil in this world.' So I said, 'Well can I dialogue with you on that point.' He said yes. So I asked him, 'If you say there is such a thing as evil, are you assuming there is such a thing as good.' 'Yes.' 'If you assume there is such a thing as good, must you not also assume a moral law in order to differentiate between good and evil.' He sorta hummed and haahed over that for a while so I reminded him of the famous interview with Bertrand Russel by a pastor. The pastor asked him, 'How do you differentiate between good and evil.' Bertrand Russel said, 'The same way I differentiate between blue and green.' The pastor said, 'But wait a minute you differentiate between blue and green by seeing don't you? How do you differentiate between good and evil?' And the great philosopher, mathematician said, 'On the basis of feeling what else.'

If you don't know why thats a problem imagine your neighbour feels its his moral prerogative to molest children. Obviously it can't be done on feeling or we'd descend into anarchy. Continuing on...

'The student eventually said, 'Alright, I'll grant you a moral law.' So I said, 'But if you grant me a moral law, you must grant also a moral law giver. But that's whom your trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral law giver, there's no moral law, if there's no moral law there's no good, if there's no good there's no evil. What is your question?' The student looked at me and said, 'What them am I asking you?'

'Now you may say, 'Ravi, I'll grant you a moral law, but why do we need a moral law giver?' To which I would answer you, 'The reason for the necessity of a moral law giver is that any question of morality is always asked by a person or about a person. Moral questions are always asked by a person or about a person. This is crucial because it means a very important assumption has been smuggled in. We assume that people have value, and that the question has value and that I have the right to ask it because I am valued. But there is no basis for value in a universe where we are simply the products of time plus matter plus chance. Zero.'