Thanks protestandrebel. I understand that God gave us leaders. You are referring to 1 Samuel 8:22. As far as I could tell, this applied to Israel, not to the whole world. The rest of the world had leaders, and Israel wanted to be like them, instead of letting God be their leader. I just find it difficult to look at all the evil around me and think, "God must be in control." I would think that if He were, then there wouldn't be so much evil. We have free will, but at what point does He put a stop to it? These are the things I think about.