Parsing the explanation-of-evil half-gainer

Yesterday I said that I might nominate a certain explanation of evil for "lamest half-gainer performed from the theological diving board." Of course, I don't have a precise scale for judging one half-gainer lamer than the next. In my excitement I was exaggerating a little.
    I still think, though, that the theologian who came up with revelation of God (and had God speak in the first-person in the Old Testament) was undoubtedly a genius of the highest rank, and I can't think of a half-gainer any more adroit than that. But I'm not sure that yesterday's explanation for evil is literally the lamest. My nomination is pending the following investigation.

The explanation of evil went like this:

The "evil" that you speak of is put there for a reason, that we may all realize that there is none good, not one, and that left to ourselves we are all capable of the most heinous of crimes against God and against our fellow man.

Now, I had characterized the evil as having been influenced by the Bible (by persons presumably Christian):

...the murder and persecution of Jews—the ones who killed Christ!, the slaughter of Muslims during the Crusades, the persecution of "witches," the racking and burning at the stake of heretics, the showing to Galileo of the instruments of torture to force him to recant his scientific findings, etc.

    So, let's try to sort the explanation out. These evils, committed by Christians (and under the influence of the Bible), were "put there." Hmm, does the theologian mean that the Christians were manipulated like puppets and didn't really, morally commit the acts? Interesting!
    And who or what manipulated them? The passive voice leaves this to the imagination. I don't suppose that the Bible, through its "influence," is the manipulator, for if that were so the theologian would be conceding my point. (But it would tend to explain, perhaps, why one publisher titled his edition of the Bible The Living Bible. The living manipulator Bible!)
    Also, since the classes of acts I specified were just examples, standing for all evil acts that are (or will be) committed under the influence of the Bible, the theologian seems to be making the more general pronouncement that whenever Christians commit evil acts (under the influence of the Bible) they're being manipulated, so that their acts may be "put there" to make a point.
    Boy, that really does make you realize, doesn't it?
    But, oh, wait a minute. There's more to what we're thus made to realize; we're made to realize that, "left to ourselves, we are all capable of the most heinous of crimes against God and against our fellow man"! Uh-oh, problem here! All of these evil-doing Christians haven't been left to themselves; their acts have been "put there"—and to make a point, no less! It's getting kind of circular here maybe.
    You know, I think this half-gainer is still on the coach's drawing board. It's not ready for the diving platform yet. Nominations for performance awards for this candidate are ruled out of order.