Not a dodge at all. Yes, God is all powerful and loves his children, but has also allowed us to make many of our own choices; the account of the fall is at heart the human race telling God to take a hike, that we can do things better on our own, and he is respecting our wishes (our wishes) for a period to do so. The bad stuff happening on this planet is ultimately humans doing it to humans; critics are happy to say "why doesn't God prevent this or that from happening", as long as God doesn't prevent them from doing this or that. You, me, everybody on the planet has broken all or most of the Ten Commandments, many in action, the rest in thought; that's why Christians a called to repentance. To know what Christianity really is, read the New Testament; many who call themselves Christian are anything but, and you aren't going to learn anything solid about Christ and real Christianity if your main source of information is just looking at false Christians, present and past.