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Also real quick tho huge respect dude. Like, not sinking to the level of these so called "Christians" when they do all the crap they do is difficult. I promise bro, Christians who understand the Bible aren't happy with the violence or the hatred either, but we can't give up on them either right? 

I don't know if you are looking for a discussion on this, but like, come on bro this can be answered with a google search. Btw, I agree with you 100% that the violence and the overt hatred of many so called "Christians" is abominable (have they even read the Bible? What about 2 John 4:20, James 3:9-10, Romans 13:8-10, and so much more? Like, hello? Stop the tribalism FFS ). 

Anyway if I understand your argument, it stems from the dilemma of if God created everything and knew everything, then creating Satan (who would rebel and bring evil) implies either malevolence or contradiction which are both inconsistent with his characterization as perfect. But your reasoning assumes that foreknowledge equals culpability and that the existence of evil discounts from divine goodness which is not perfectly sound.

This is because bro, you ignored the doctrine of free will, which is super important to Christian theology. God didn’t create Satan as evil, he created Lucifer as a good, free agent with the capacity to choose. HIs fall wasn’t caused by God but by Lucifer's own rebellion, his own choice. To get to the point, are you arguing that God should get rid of free will to eliminate all possibility of evil, even if that erases the very freedom necessary for love and moral good? Wouldn’t eliminating the choice between doing good or evil reduce humans and angels to robots, incapable of real goodness or virtue? Like, this was the very reason why the trees Adam and Eve were told not to eat from was in the garden of Eden, it was to give Adam and Eve a choice between standing with God (not eating from the tree) vs standing against God (eating from the tree). God wanted them to have a relationship with him based on choice, he didn’t want captives or puppets, this is the exact reason Lucifer was allowed to exist, why you and I are allowed to exist.

Anyway, to tie up the rebuttal, why is a world without free will, aka a world where evil is impossible, a morally superior one? (If you are still insisting on your argument anyway).