Why do atheists always argue about the existence of suffering in the world as meaning God doesn't exist when it doesn't prove anything?

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Why do atheists always argue about the existence of suffering in the world as meaning God doesn't exist when it doesn't prove anything?

Question: Why do atheists always argue about the existence of suffering in the world as meaning God doesn't exist when it doesn't prove anything?

A rational person can easily refute a flat-earther argument that the surface of the Earth is not curved. For a flat-earther, however, his (or her) argument against a curved earth, is convincing.

For some atheists, however, the argument is convincing.

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Existence of evil => God doesn’t exist

They bring up the argument because they find it convincing.

Similarly, a religious person can easily refute the argument

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