"i know enough to know what's instantly forgettable"
An alternate quasi-scientific view:
If you accept the quantum view of reality (specifically many worlds interpretation) then all things that can happen do happen in some version of reality. A God may well be a higher being for whom omniscience could mean awareness of all realities not just one and omnipotent may mean that actions that God takes lead to effects across all realities not just a single reality.
If that was to be true, benevolence starts to take on a different meaning, one that our limited view of reality could not appreciate. That benevolence may involve trying to positively influence the multiverse as a whole. God's main choice would be to act or not to act; to create or not to create.
I am not a religious man, but I do have a daughter who is autistic and has cerebal palsy. When times get tough I think on the multiverse and consider that for all the realities where the positive things I dream of for her are true (including the ones where she is queen of the universe) there must also be a reality where the bad things happen. She can either exist and have bad and good across the multiverse or not exist and have nothing neither good nor bad.
I don't atribute that to a God but it does give me pause for thought.
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Apathy their stepping stone, so unfeeling...
Hidden deep animosity, so deceiving...
Through your eyes their light burns, hoping to find...
Inquisition sinking you with prying minds..
One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and everything but..
Like, you whine like a bitch.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
I went off to get a beer."
Ah. The "Problem of Evil" as Atheist tried to convey misses a key assumption: Not only is God omniscient and omnipotent but she is also a loving God. That is the problem of evil. Why do God permit evil in the world? Either she is not omnipotent, or she is not a loving God (all-good). Scholars have tackled with this problem for centuries. One suggestion has been that free will is inherently good and supersedes the notion of omnibenevolence. That is, free will is more important that divine intervention.