"Depends on if you see god as a separate being or an experimental life force that is in all things."

The Epicurean Paradox was formulated long before Xtianity. But it does just apply to the special case; hence its other nickname The Omnibenevolent Paradox.

It only refers to a deity who is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-loving.

Another refutation of the defenses was offered by former pastor John Loftus. If everything here is some sort of trial to get our souls ready for their eternal destiny in Heaven, then why not create them already perfected in Heaven? Why make the successful suffer unnecessarily on the way, and why make some of the deserving fall prey to pitfalls and never make it?

But indeed, if Ghod is your name for "the force," then the paradox is gone.

Animists see spirits in everything, but not all powerful or even all-loving ones.

No problem of evil when the Ghods are weak, ignorant or even overtly evil.

Dante