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Unfortunately, memes like this are only minor (at best) in value to a discussion. In all honestly Epicurus was not even atheist.
But he was a philosopher and what he said somewhat resembles the above but not quite. What he really presented was his take on ‘the logical problem of evil,“ which is based on a logical argument of what omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient capability would mean. The problem we face is the philosophical argument of “free will” which is rooted in a concept of choice and consequence no matter if individual or wide ranging (assuming without limit.) The primary principle of the free will argument is generally accepted as the best counter argument to these very old arguments about the logical problem of evil that goes back to the days of polytheism.
The only reason I mention that is the concept of polytheism allows for arguably evil things to be done by Gods, even though similar to monotheism there is usually some leading God that has the power to deal with that.
But there is a caveat to the philosophical argument of free will, and it speaks to the discussion we are having here. The caveat is we are on our own, again individual up to wide ranging (community, state, nation, what have you.)
What that means is by our actions and inactions all “evils” are explainable, both close to us and much further away even if we lack the understanding to explain it all at the point of discovery. The real consequence of this understanding from philosophy is all prayer asking for guidance and/or better outcome and/or even thanking God or Gods for a result for whatever outcome is nothing more than religious euphoria.
You are talking to no one listening.
The reason? Because by the counter argument of free will the logical problem of evil suggests that what is *not* removed is God. It was not an argument about atheism. What is removed is God watching, removed from being an active participant in your life, and the result of the philosophical debate becomes God or Gods are nothing more than “absentee landlords” (bonus points for the naming the movie I quoted.)
“Then why call him God?” Free will answers that, the supposed next step.
Now personally, I think this is all intellectual exercise. The better argument is our concepts of God or Gods are just that far off the mark for whatever is responsible for what we call our realities.
