Must the God of monotheism necessarily be a “nice” God, as Richard Dawkins seems to imply? One problem with this formulation is that it takes for granted that God is a moral agent that can be judged, and found wanting, by the same sort of external standards that we apply in judging other human beings. Aquinas—though he has a lot to say about God, good, and evil—does not seriously engage the atheist argument from evil. Samkara was aware of the challenge of atheism, and he does offer a theodicy, but it is a preliminary one, not representing his final view. Abhinavagupta and his tradition, in terms of theological discourse, have scarcely anything to say on evil as it might problematize conceptions of God, for it seems to them not a problem, though the Śaiva mythic corpus speaks in its own way. For Hindus in Bali, the idea that God is good is taken to be simplistic.