what is evil
Although this issue is conventionally called the problem of evil, the term evil is not entirely apt. In this context the word refers, very broadly, to all the bad things that happen to people which, at one extreme, are too trivial to qualify as normally conceived. The pain and suffering in question are due to both human and natural causes. It is usual to talk of moral evil to cover the suffering caused by the immoral actions of human beings (murder, lying, and so on) and natural evil to cover suffering caused by factors outside human control (natural disasters such s earthquakes and disasters such as earthquakes and diseases not brought on by human activity.