Khandro - // //I thought everything was God's plan//
Really? & there was I thinking it was man who was effing everything up //
Who ever dreamed up the 'free will' argument was a genius, it has given Christians from then until now the ultimate 'get out' clause - everything that is wrong is Man's fault because of 'free will'.
At a stroke, God is excused from anything approaching responsibility for what goes on in the world he created.
Atheists like me see that simply far to pat and simple as an answer - if God wants my worship and adoration and fear and hope and just about anything else, he's going to have to show a little more on his side to prove he is around, and frankly, given the state the world is in, he needs to do it sooner rather than later ... or not at all, which will simply back up my disbelief in him anyway.