Their logic would be

C

If something bad happens to someone it’s because they deserved it

“But they were a good person”

They were going to do something terrible

we are just bald monkeys, stop pretending otherwise

go fuck a banana!

Its clearly because clearly god has realized the best thing ever is isekai so he made earth and made us all isekai MCs. The terrible things that happen just give sus unique back stories when we get isekai'd so we all get to be unique MCs. /s

It's just that the model of divinity as an lawful authority is complete bullshit, and has nothing to do with spirituality

If you'd read more than 3 books of fiction (the Bible can be only one of them), you'd probably have cultivated a level of imagination that suprasses this meme.

I think the Pope and Cardinals would all choose B and then proceed to schpiel about how this life is a trial and he takes each of us at precisely the time of his choosing for good reasons inconceivable to mere mortals bla bla bla

Think about the following:

In the medieval ages, people were popping out 5-15 children on average. Child mortality was extremely high, with roughly 80% of children dying before they were 5 y/o.

Now, what should god do (if they existed)? Let the children life and cause overpopulation, which leads to famine and disaster, or kill a lot of children? There's literally no solution.

That was until contraceptives were found. And interestingly, contraceptives exist at roughly the same time that antibiotics exist, thus preventing both high child-mortality and overpopulation.

My option is that god isn’t all knowing and all powerful as a single being, but that the best approximation of the word god is that it is being itself. There is no end to it. It’s simply the process by which all possible permutations of existence are briefly manifest over eternity. Maybe there are components of being that have moral tendencies, but is being itself moral?

E. You deserved it

It's not that deep:
1- In the case of natural evils: C. God causes them, but they are morally neutral from the spiritual perspective. If what matters is salvation and glory to God it doesn't change anything if you died by tornado or by anything else, and inevitable death might even be a net positive individually and to others (Ind: the person might repent about something, social: seeing the frailness of life leads to less self love, while increasing compassion)
2- In the case of human caused evils: B with an asterisk. Given that He has imposed upon Himself the restriction of respecting free will, He won't stop people from doing evil deeds, even though He wants them to do good and He can make them do it. Why God chooses to do it like this is a mistery and doesn't really matter, but it seems to be because He wants people to freely choose to worship Him.

So for the sake of a thought experiment:

in this thought experiment B or C or both is the case:

what is the best course of action?

comply with regulations and hope to get on the good side or suffer the consequences of the alternative

worship doesn't require benevolence. fear keeps people in line just as well.

pretty sure thats the case for many religious people. telling you the god isn't "good" would upset the rules, so why would they