Impotent or Evil?

"Nine million children die every year before they reach the age of 5. Picture an asian tsunami of the sort we saw in 2004 that killed a quarter of a million people. One of those, every ten days. Killing children only under 5. Twenty four thousand a day, a thousand an hour, seventeen or so a minute. Before i can get to the end of this sentence, some few children will have died in terror and agony. Think of the parents of those children. Think of the fact that most of these men and women believe in god and are praying at this moment for their children to be spared, and their prayers will not be answered. Any god who will allow children by the millions to suffer and die in this way and their parents to grieve in this way either can do nothing to help them, or doesn't care to. He is therefore either impotent or evil." - Sam Harris