The Problem of Saying God is Evil While Saying Evil Doesn't Exist

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It's really laughable at how some dogmatic atheists would call themselves fancy titles that make them look like intellectuals and some even put Rational as part of said title or pen name. One of the most funny ones has to be calling itself the Rational Response Squad which is better named as the Irrational Response Squad. One of atheism's greatest irrational arguments is to say that God is evil, that they will never submit to Him because He's evil yet didn't they say that evil doesn't exist.

Here's probably one of the most famous atheist quotes by Richard Dawkins from one of his books called the "River Out of Eden":
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

What makes it even funnier is that this quote is put by some dogmatic atheist who condemns a lot of evils in society while believing that there are no moral absolutes. Yet, how can he have a ground for condemning Roman Catholic priests raping helpless altar boys and Muslim extremists for their terrorist activities if one believes that there's no good or evil but only pitiless indifference. This is very selective outrage by atheism isn't it? So is it okay for brutal atheist regimes like Khmer Rouge to do what they do while it won't be okay for Muslim theocracies to exterminate atheists? That's really a bad case of double standard we have there!

The dilemma goes this way. If evil doesn't exist then how can God be evil? Another dilemma that the atheist must answer for is that they say God doesn't exist then they later say that God is evil in another. This is really the fallacy of circular reasoning. To make things worse, they accuse their opponents of supposed "bullying" towards them (and they play the victim) so how can they condemn bullying if they only believe in pitiless indifference? Also, if they say that religion goes against everything that they hold dear such as human rights - why even bother to talk about human rights if there's no good and evil and nothing but pitiless indifference? Also, if they are so scientific then doesn't science deal with absolutes, design and purpose while Dawkins dares to say that there's no design and no purpose?

What does the Bible say about this? James 1:8 says that the double-minded person is unstable in all his ways. Atheism may claim itself to be rational and smart but it isn't. How can you be rational if you're double-minded? In short, atheist "rationality" is but real irrationality and the fool is wise in his or her own eyes (Proverbs 26:12).

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