Those who have a problem with God supposedly using and tolerating evil while being supposedly loving and good have a tacit question. Many ask it explicitly. It is that God supposedly has the power to wipe out all evil instantly and will not. Why?
Christians give the following answer.
God is being patient. This is not weakness but mercy. He delays judgment so that you can be pardoned by him and enjoy his mercy.
Then they say that if God used the power to eliminate evil it would mean leaving everybody dead. They say the question forgets that evil is not just out there but lives in each person. Evil cannot be annihilated without killing the person who has made evil part of themselves.
Let us unpack that.
God agrees that evil should be destroyed but will not do it for destroying us with it is evil too. Killing us would be a way of letting evil be better than us.
The trouble is religion says it already is - though it will not say so openly.
Jesus said that sin or evil enslaves you though you think it does not.
He warned that it is insidious and always up to worse than you think - metaphorically speaking. He added that Satan is involved too to help it along as if that were not enough.
This glamourises evil as a power bigger than any human.
Now we are told it is inherently in everyone.
The attraction behind being cruel and unjust is that evil is seen as a powerful toxin or weapon. The claim made by religion that evil is not real but a lack of good for God makes all and has not made evil solves nothing. A fake solution does harm. But this worsens it. We end up amazed by this powerful nothing - it adds to its appeal. Evil as nothing is as magical to human nature as if it were some real supernatural/occult substance or energy.
Even if evil is not real, we as good as make it real and it becomes an inherent part of us. That is why killing it means killing us.
Nobody has the right without a jury and judge to say that every human being is evil.
The theology in the answer allows for those who think humans are both holy and sinful or that human nature should be reduced entirely to sinfulness. The theology is seen as more important than which of those two sides is right. That is a warning that this is a Pandora's box.
The fact remains that if persons are seen as both good and bad or just sinful their destruction is really an option - if that pesky divine patience and mercy could go away or be inapplicable.
The theology blesses devastating fear and feeds it.
Before religion calls people inherently evil as in part or in full, it
should look at its inherently evil theology.