Arguments from evil

One thing I never under­stood about the argu­ment from evil is how peo­ple came to view it as an argu­ment against the exis­tence of God, or at least against the exis­tence of a per­sonal and all lov­ing God. My con­fu­sion over this argu­ment isn’t sim­ply because if it’s for­mu­lated incor­rectly, you must assume what you’re try­ing to dis­prove (an objec­tive moral stan­dard with which to dif­fer­en­ti­ate between good and evil, nec­es­sar­ily requir­ing God). My con­fu­sion over this argu­ment is because ‘evil’ as a thing from which peo­ple argue, if they argue from nat­u­ral­is­tic pre­sup­po­si­tions, sim­ply doesn’t exist. Whether it’s gra­tu­itous evil and suf­fer­ing (ani­mal or oth­er­wise) or sim­ply bad actions. Epi­cu­rus was wish­fully think­ing, there is no evil in his argu­ment to remove God.