NON-Christian Perspective on the Problem of Evil (recent Michigan Church shooting as a test case)

[AgnosticBoy]

One forum member outlined a moral framework that is very good and interesting:

• Morality doesn’t come from arbitrary divine commands (like rules imposed by a super-sovereign).
• Instead, morality is tied to alignment with reality-as-such. To live in truth, love, or justice is to live in harmony with the very ground from which being arises.
• “Good” then means participating more fully in being (flourishing, integration, wholeness), while “evil” is distortion, fragmentation, or diminishment of being.

I wanted to explore this more in practical terms by asking one of the hardest questions relating to evil in the world.

Let's consider this event that happened over the weekend - reported by CNN:

But on Sunday morning, a former Marine and Iraq War veteran took advantage of the denomination’s open arms – plowing his truck into an LDS church in Michigan, shooting worshippers with an assault weapon and setting the chapel on fire.

At least four people were killed at the church in tranquil Grand Blanc Township. Eight others were wounded. And up to seven people could be unaccounted for as search crews resume a harrowing search in the charred debris of what used to be a haven of hope.

The assailant died in a shootout with police. It’s not clear why he unleashed multifaceted horror at this particular church, about 60 miles northwest of Detroit. The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of targeted violence, authorities said.

Using the moral view that's quoted above, let's discuss the following about this tragic event:
1. Why did this evil happen?
2. How does the moral system fit or explain this situation?
3. How could we resolve or prevent this evil?