A bonus "example story", if you will, from the previous stupid-long post on arguments against God due to pain and suffering.
The whole thing is based on Tim Keller's book Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, so if you're angry at it, I refer you to God or to Keller. If you love it, I refer you to the same :).
This is a story outlined in his book as an example of how many of us live out the "boomerang effect".
"Andrea Palpant Dilley was raised by Quaker medical missionaries in Kenya, where she was exposed to far more death and darkness than most children in Western countries ever see. By the time she was a teenager, she began to question God's goodness, and by the time she was in her twenties, she had rejected Christianity altogether. What drove her away was her anger at God over suffering and injustice.
But one night she was in a philosophical discussion with a young man about the existence of God. He was arguing that morality was relative- different to every culture and person. In conclusion, he said, "I think morals are totally subjective: therefore God is unnecessary." Dilley heard herself responding: "but, if morals are totally subjective, then you can't say Hitler was wrong. You can't say there's anything unjust about letting babies starve. And you can't condemn evil. How tenable is that?... You have to consent to an objective moral standard, up here." She waved her hand in the air, drawing a horizontal line. "And the possibility of a divine moral mind comes into play." She realized that she was taking the first steps back into belief.
Later, Dilley concluded:
When people ask me what drove me out the doors of the church and then what brought me back, my answer to both questions is the same. I left the church in part because I was mad at God about human suffering and injustice. And I came back to church because of that same struggle. I realized that I couldn't even talk about justice without standing inside of a theistic framework. In a naturalistic worldview, a parentless orphan in the slums of Nairobi can only be explained in terms of survival of the fittest. We're all just animals slumming it in a godless world, fighting for space and resources. The idea of justice doesn't really mean anything. To talk about justice, you have to talk about objective morality, and to talk about objective morality, you have to talk about God.
In summary, the problem of senseless suffering does not go aware if you abandon belief in God. If there is no God, why have a sense of outrage and horror when unjust suffering occurs to any group of people?"