God Created Atheists

God looked down.

It had been a while since he'd looked down.

The whole free will thing really pissed him off sometimes.

Humans always seemed to do bad things in his name.

Persecution, pillaging, religious genocide, plain old regular genocide, war, terrorism, racism.

God got sick of it sometimes. So he'd just... look away.

A bystander in his own kingdom.

But today, God looked down. It was sometime in the mid-1900s. He hadn't looked since the Dark Ages. At first, he thought humans were doing rather well.

Then there was the guy with the mustache.

And God decided, you know what? It's about time I do something about this. It seems like the religion I created has been twisted. I wanted peace and tolerance, and I got fire and brimstone. The whole reason I wrote the New Testament was so that people would give up on all that vengeance.

First, God had created trees. When he got tired of those swaying branches, he created flowers. When he got tired of their colorful petals, he made children.

But now, those children had grown up, and had children, and their children had children, and now everyone was being slaughtered.

So God said fuck it. I made a religion, and look what happened.

Maybe everything would be better in a world where they didn't believe in me. Maybe I'm the reason for all of this suffering. Maybe people will heal in a world where I don't exist. Maybe I was vain to create beings that worship me. Maybe I am unworthy of their worship. First Lucifer, then Adam and Eve. Evil infects everything I do. So maybe I should make something that doesn't believe in me. If they don't believe I exist, then Evil can't hold them in its grip.

And so God created atheists.