If God is in control he seems rather inept considering the almost endless misery visited upon so many who have done nothing but be born in a part of the world without access to modern-day medicine.

I don't want to know the God that allows suffering on such a scale to go on if he is "in control". If any human being had the control you assign to your god, yet allowed the state of the world to be as it is, we would rightly call them a monster.