We live in a random universe - things just happen. There is no evil - it is just the absence of good. Evil is an illusion, an aberration of our unlearned minds. We get what we deserve. You were bad and are getting what you deserve.
Evil is the result of a limited god who just can t keep up with a runaway creation.
A variation of this, which I did not mention last week, is the case of Rabbi Kushner. Kushner wrote a very important book, Why Bad Things Happen to Good People . He could not reconcile that suffering with any conception of a plan of a good God. Kushner s conclusion is that God is good, but simply not very powerful. He set up the universe but did not retain the rights to any involvement in it.