History Main / EvilStoleMyFaith

* Father Willibald from ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' is a Catholic priest. After witnessing too much suffering on Earth, he came to the conclusion that GodIsEvil for permitting all this evil and as a result his faith became twisted. Wanting to prove himself wrong he vacillates between seeking an ActOfTrueLove, and [[INeedAFreakingDrink getting roaring drunk to dull his pain]]. [[spoiler:He manages to convince Canute of the same, leading the latter to commit to a RageAgainstTheHeavens.]]

** Jesse Custer in ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'' truly came to believe in God due to his abusive childhood and hitting the DespairEventHorizon. After a few years of dealing with the petty evils of his congregation as a priest he slid back into hollow faith and DrowningMySorrows, believing God wasn't really there after all. And then along comes Genesis...

-->'''Riddick:''' Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor-store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? Got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God. And I absolutely ''hate'' the fucker.

-->'''Robert Neville''': God's plan?! All right, let me tell you about your God's plan. There were 6 billion people on Earth when the infection hit. KV had a 90 percent kill rate; that's 5.4 billion people dead. Crashed and bled out, ''dead''. Less than 1 percent immunity, that left 12 million healthy people like you, me and Ethan. The other 588 million turned into your Darkseekers, and then they got hungry, and they killed and fed on everybody. ''Everybody!'' Every single person that you or I has ever known is '''''[[SuddenlyShouting DEAD]]!!!!''''' Dead! There is no God! There is no God.

* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Sunset'', Mothwing is a medicine cat that doesn't believe in [=StarClan=] - basically the equivalent of an atheist priest. She explains to Leafpool that the reason she stopped believing is because her brother revealed that he'd faked the omen that made the medicine cat choose her as apprentice, and that if [=StarClan=] really existed they wouldn't let him threaten/blackmail her and do evil deeds to gain power. (They ''do'' exist in the series, they're just TheWatcher and don't/can't interfere.)
* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'': One of the interviewees is a muslim for Egypt who had been radicalized into hardcore anti-semitism, which was completely shattered when his family fled to Israel during the early stages of the outbreak and made it through the war. Not only did he discover that everything he had been told about Israel was false, they were some of the only ones who had any idea what they were doing and took the threat of the living dead seriously. After the war, the man abandoned not only his extremism, but religion entirerly, viewing the lies he had been told and the horrors of the zombie apocalypse as proof that it was all lies.

* In ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', Reverend Smith is suffering from some kind of brain disease, but doesn't do himself any favors by continuing working and thinking it's God's will that he got sick. Doc Cochran says "If this is God's plan, Reverend, He is a son of a bitch." He later [[RageAgainstTheHeavens yells at God]] for allowing people like the reverend and the dying soldiers he met in the Civil War to suffer so badly.

* The podcast ''God Awful Movies'' reviews bad religious movies, almost always Christian. They've started to joke about how apparently every atheist's mother has cancer, since this is used to invoke the trope in so many of these movies.

* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': Gabe joins the priesthood in one strip after the "twin blessings" of ''VideoGame/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' and ''VideoGame/FullSpectrumWarrior'' convinces him of God's love. This lasts until Tycho points out that Microsoft cancelled the anticipated MMORPG ''True Fantasy Live'' right on the treshold of completion, and Gabe sadly concludes that there is no God and humanity is nothing but soulless sacks of meat and water doomed to toil in misery.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Last Exit to Springfield," when the school photographer gets Lisa to smile for her school photo and sees the horrible 19th century style braces she's wearing (because there's no dental plan at the Power Plant where Homer works) he {{gasp}}s out "There is no God!"

** The episode [[Recap/SouthParkS5E6Cartmanland "Cartmanland"]] sees Cartman inheriting a million dollars and buying his own private theme park. Kyle is dumbfounded at the idea that God would reward such a rotten person, and ends up getting a hemorrhoid. As things get better for Cartman, Kyle's condition worsens and he renounces his faith. At the point where Kyle is on the verge of death ([[RuleOfFunny yes, from a hemorrhoid]]), Stan brings him to the theme park in time to see Cartman's dream destroyed by his own greed, at which point Kyle makes a miraculous recovery.

** ''ComicBook/JustAPilgrim'': the titular pilgrim, an ex-Special Forces type who found the Lord in prison, survived the end of the world when the sun moved closer, drying up the oceans, and found the last remnants of humanity hiding in the Mariana Trench. His faith in God wouldn't be out of place in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', but he finally snaps when a mutant race of jellyfish takes over a little girl. His last act before his HeroicSacrifice is to toss out the Bible he wanted the surivors to take.

* In ''Film/IAmLegend'', when Anna speculates that her coming to New York to find Neville is some part of God's plan, Robert launches into a furious tirade that given everything he's seen and lost in the past three years (as the result of a [[ThePlague viral pandemic that killed almost 90% of the earth's population]] and mutated more than half of the survivors into [[OurZombiesAreDiffernet predatory]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent monsters]] hunting down any immune humans left), there can be no God.

* Father Willibald from ''Manga/VinlandSaga''is a Catholic priest. After witnessing too much suffering on Earth, he came to the conclusion that GodIsEvil for permitting all this evil and as a result his faith became twisted. Wanting to prove himself wrong he vacillates between seeking an ActOfTrueLove, and [[INeedAFreakingDrink getting roaring drunk to dull his pain]]. [[spoiler:He manages to convince Canute of the same, leading the latter to commit to a RageAgainstTheHeavens.]]

* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1983 1983]]-2 are [[LivingShadow Living,]] [[AndShowItToYou heart-stealing]] [[LivingShadow Shadows]] that can only be killed by silver bullets fired accompanied by prayer. Doesn't matter who you're praying to while you shoot, just as long as you mean it. When the Foundation sends a team into their EldritchLocation, they get picked off one at a time, and the last one to die makes it as far as their nest. After seeing how 1983-2 are born, he can't pray anymore. Not and mean it.

* Justin in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' upon seeing [[TheStoic Susan's]] [[TastesLikeDiabetes "kitty face"]], thinks to himself that there is no god. This is likely taken from the Simpsons example below.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Last Exit to Springfield," when the school photographer gets Lisa to smile for her school photo and sees the horrible 19th century style braces she's wearing (because there's no dental plan at the Power Plant where Homer works) he {{gasp}}s out "There is no god!"

** The episode also has Kyle [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the [[Literature/TheBible story of Job]] by asking how the God who would punish a decent man just to prove a point to Satan could possibly be considered benevolent. It doesn't help that his parents don't read the last part, where God rewards Job, and gives him more than what Job had before he lost everything.

* {{Implied}} in ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' with the title character. Despite being coded as ThePaladin with his belief in [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Users]] being central to his character, and a [[PalsWithJesus long friendship with Flynn]] he never once mentions that in the series itself. Considering the TraumaCongaLine he's gone through, and the fact Flynn's [[Film/TronLegacy tucked his tail between his legs and run off to the Outlands, leaving the Programs at Clu's mercy]], it's more than understandable.

** ''ComicBook/JustAPilgrim'': the titular pilgrim, an ex-Special Forces type who found the Lord in prison, survived the end of the world when the sun moved closer, drying up the oceans, and found the last remnants of humanity hiding in the Marianas Trench. Throughout the entire book his faith in God wouldn't be out of place in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', but he finally snaps when a mutant race of jellyfish takes over a little girl. His last act before his HeroicSacrifice is to toss out the Bible he wanted the surivors to take.
* ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'': After her beloved Uncle Anoosh is executed by the fundamentalist regime as a communist dissident, Marjane tells God that she hates him and doesn't want to see him anymore. [[spoiler:He still pops up from time to time, however]].

* ''Film/BrassedOff'': Mr Chuckles, after memorably screwing up a children's party:
-->'''Angry Middle-Class Mum:''' May god forgive you.\\
'''Mr Chuckles:''' God? Oh right, there now, there's the fella. I mean what's he doin', eh? He can take Music/JohnLennon, he can take those three young lads down at Ainsley Pit, he's even thinkin' of taking my old man, and ''[[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Margaret bloody Thatcher lives?]]'' I mean, ''what's he soddin' playin' at'', eh? ... You've been great. My name's Coco the Scab.

* In ''Film/CubeZero'', at the end of the titular DeathTrap filled labyrinth any survivors are asked if they believe in God. If they say "no", the Cube's operators press a button marked "No" which causes the survivor to be incinerated. When the new operator asks what the button marked "Yes" does, the other much older operator says ''he doesn't know'': ''no one'' has ever said "Yes".

* In ''Film/AprilShowers'', Sean questions what kind of God would let the school shooting [[spoiler:that killed his friends and the girl he loved]] happen.

* In Christopher Durang's 1979 BlackComedy play ''Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You'' Diane Symonds tells the horribly abusive nun, Sister Maty Ignatius, that she was the one to come up with the plan to humiliate her with three other former students. Diane clung to her Catholic faith because she had believed in what Sister Mary had taught them years ago but losing her mother to a long painful battle with breast cancer and being raped the same night. Feeling her faith had long failed her and that God had just let it all happen, Diane had got her fellow students to humiliate Sister Mary [[spoiler: and kill her.]]

* The infamous ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" has Brian using Meg's [[InformedDeformity unattractiveness]] as evidence of God's nonexistence.

** One episode sees Cartman inheriting a million dollars and buying his own private theme park. Kyle is dumbfounded at the idea that God would reward such a rotten person, and ends up getting a hemorrhoid. As things get better for Cartman, Kyle's condition worsens and he renounces his faith. At the point where Kyle is on the verge of death ([[RuleOfFunny yes, from a hemorrhoid]]), Stan brings him to the theme park in time to see Cartman's dream destroyed by his own greed, at which point Kyle makes a miraculous recovery.

** The episode also has Kyle [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the [[Literature/TheBible story of Job]] by asking how the God who would punish a decent man just to prove a point to Satan could possibly be considered benevolent. It doesn't help that his parents don't read the last part, where God rewards Job,and gives him more than what Job had before he lost everything.

* In one film version of ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', the despairing title character gives up all hope in God, having been incarcerated in a harsh French prison for several years.

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* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' uses an extremely dark take on this in the backstory of [[spoiler: Miyo Takano, making this trope the root cause of both her megalomania and as a result the Endless June]].