There are realer things than god in this world which can be categorized as abusive, tyrannical, sociopathic, narcistic sociopaths - and God traditionally has been but a fiction made reality by his "representatives" here on Earth. Whether we choose to focus on the mythological embodiment-construct of a former world conquering engine, or look at the mirrored elements of this being in our own era - what it comes down to is human nature.
Our world is inevitably guided by the darkest of our characteristics, for they are most efficient at getting ◊◊◊◊ done; power corrupts, they say - does it not hold that a hypothetical ALL powerful being, such as "God" would be therefore the most corrupt entity in existence? Despite modern day filtering of religion to weed out this contradiction, God has traditionally been understood as the being which created evil as well as good - Satan was just one creation of God's with a perhaps too large ego, the deranged side of his personality you might say; and plagues destroying infant and elderly alike were attributed to an infraction against his desires.
It is said that we are the reflection of our creator; if God were a nice guy, caring, who never harmed; would our survival be based around the destruction of other entities? Would we be an infinitely replicating species on a finite plane?
Does it not make more sense that we live in a world corrupt, because this corruption is inherent in the first principle which started the whole thing? Your call whether or not you choose to hate it, but the characteristics of God are those of the world, and all its creatures - if not individually, at least collectively. This impulsively destructive trait, although perhaps evil to the organism which values its own will and life, is how evolution and progress are ultimately brought about.
