History Main / GodIsEvil

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': in [[http://media.heavy.com/media/2013/03/bill4.gif this]] strip, Calvin [[ImagineSpot imagines himself]] as such a god, [[MundaneMadeAwesome while playing with tinkertoys]]. The entire scene is complete with a highly dramatized ArtShift which makes the entire context of the scene feel equally ridiculous and awesome.

%% [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] delights in imagining God this way, most notably in [[http://media.heavy.com/media/2013/03/bill4.gif this]] strip.

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'' uses this as a fundamental premise. Yahweh, the entity that presented himself as the Christian god (and apparently Allah for the Islamic faith as well) is actually an immature douchebag who became drunk on the power he held over humanity until he reached the point where he became convinced of his own lie. He eventually became fed up with those parts of humanity that questioned him, and closed the gates of Heaven to mankind sometime around 1000 A.D., thereby condemning all of humanity to Hell, ''even the faithful''. The story gets kicked off when he decides that isn't enough, and gives Satan free rein to wipe out mankind forever so Yahweh could go to a different dimension to find some other species that might be more obedient. However, by the time this happened, humanity had become very technologically advanced, while Heaven and Hell were still at the Bronze Age. [[CurbStompBattle You can predict]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge what a pissed-off humanity]] [[RageAgainstTheHeavens does next.]]

TruthInTelevision: this viewpoint is OlderThanFeudalism. Already some Greek philosophers considered the Olympian deities [[JerkassGods to be nothing but malevolent bullies]]. Lucian (2nd century AD) wrote a lengthy essay on why the Greco-Roman deities were evil, to boot. Likewise, the Norse sagas were full of description of Vikings who were ''goðlauss'' (godless)-they actively disdained the Norse deities, instead relying on themselves.

* Some atheist philosophers like Christopher New and Stephen Law posit this as a thought experiment to criticize traditional arguments for God's existence by arguing they're equally compatible with an all-evil, all-knowing and all-powerful god. If their case works, it would reduce traditional theistic arguments to absurdity.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' ([[RuleOfThree also by Ennis]]), God is shown to be a pathetic creature who has a pathological need to be loved, and is willing to destroy anyone who turns their back on Him. [[spoiler:As it turns out, He isn't even omnipotent; it's His ''throne'' that gives Him limitless power, and in the final issue He's tricked into leaving it and ends up reaped by His own [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]], who as it turns out WasOnceAMan whom God had ''massively'' screwed over in his mortal life ''so that'' he'd replace the current Angel of Death]].

** What started the plot in the first place? [[spoiler:God created a creature as powerful as Himself... so He could be loved by it. He actually gets a kick out of people worshipping Him despite the craptastic nature of the world, and actively makes it worse for that reason.]]

** Even the angels are pissed off at him! The Archangel Michael is running ThePlan which basically saves the heavenly host while pointing an army of absolutely enraged humans at Yahweh, and eventually kills him himself, having killed off all of Yahweh's powerful supporters by stealth or by human. Except Jesus, really called Elhmas, who is mostly presented as a stoned out of his brains idiot, [[spoiler:until it is revealed he faked his own death and is keeping an eye on Michael to prevent him from turning into another Yahweh.]]
** Michael's plot was apparently not the only one either.

->''"Not even a thousand deaths would be fitting punishment for thy sins! I shall smite thee, and in Hell I shall torture thee over and over! After an aeon, I shall reincarnate thee, and thy lives shall be those of endless torment, thy bodies tortured in life and thy souls in death! [[SinsOfOurFathers The same shall come to thy children, and thy children's children]], throughout all eternity until the end of time!"''

->''"Not even a thousand deaths would be fitting punishment for thy sins! I shall smite thee, and in Hell I shall torture thee over and over! After an aeon, I shall reincarnate thee, and thy lives shall be those of endless torment, thy bodies tortured in life and thy souls in death! [[SinsOfOurFathers The same shall come to thy children, and thy children's children]], throughout all eternity until the end of time!"''\\

--'''[[{{God}} YHVH]]''', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII''

->''As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.\\
They kill us for their sport.''
-->-- '''Gloucester''', ''Theatre/KingLear''

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* In one of the songs that are a part of the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKOY6La9LWix2oIPzL_z_mAHTcx_oHLC2 Happiness Series]] of Music/Vocaloid songs, Music/HatsuneMiku is a goddess, and while she seems nice at the beginning of the song, it quickly turns into her being an egotistical and sadistic goddess who enjoys humanity's suffering, wants the praise of humanity, and eventually wants to kill all humans.

* In one of the songs that are a part of the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKOY6La9LWix2oIPzL_z_mAHTcx_oHLC2 Happiness Series]] of Music/Vocaloid songs, Music/HatsuneMiku is a goddess, and while she seems nice at the beginning of the song, it quickly turns into her being an egotistical goddess who wants to kill all humans.

* In the 2010 film, ''Film/{{Legion}}'', God comes to the conclusion that the human race is no longer worthy of Him, and decides to end their existence. ArchangelMichael fights the angelic army, and tells ArchangelGabriel that he (Michael) did what God needed, not what God wanted, thus giving humanity another chance. The weird thing about that is that the baby the pregnant woman is carrying is implied (if not outright stated) to be the second coming of Christ. Who is God. Who is trying to end the world. [[MindScrew By stopping himself from being born and saving the world...]]

* The creepypasta "I Was Dead for Six Minutes and Saw Heaven. I Would Rather Go To Hell." revolves around a man who has a near-death experience and enters Heaven. He then finds that the angels are robotic slave drivers forcing the righteous to work eternally (as they can't physically tire) [[BrokenAngel constructing chains to restrain God]] to keep Him from destroying mankind. Soon after He made humans He tried to unmake them, which acted as a LogicBomb to the angels who were created to protect humanity, resulting in a case of TurnedAgainstTheirMasters. Rather than a FireAndBrimstoneHell, {{Hell}} is described as TheNothingAfterDeath, [[AHellOfAHeaven which the narrator views as preferable]].
* Another creepypasta called "In Heaven" features a reverend dying and meeting God... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, in Heaven]]. God turns out to be a FauxAffablyEvil egotist, who created humans just to worship Him, going so far as to [[GodGuise masquerade as every other deity humanity ever worshipped]]. He also turns anybody who enters Heaven (which, in this story, is ''[[OnlyOneAfterlife everybody]]'') [[AHellOfAHeaven into mindless slaves, incapable of independent thought]]. [[DownerEnding He then does this to the aforementioned reverend]].

* God in ''{{WebVideo/{{Starpocalypse}}'' is a deranged, perverted monster who gets sexually aroused by killing humans, making humans kill humans, watching humans have sex, and caused various social problems imposing arbitrary and insane rules on early humans for fun. It had a great time during the Inquisition.

This trope can also be called ''dystheism,'' or ''maltheism''; these are beliefs that a monotheistic god is, respectively, not wholly good or outright evil. This trope is often found in RageAgainstTheHeavens plots (and will likely invoke ''misotheism'' -- hatred of God or the gods), and is a common belief of {{Nay Theist}}s.

* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': Unlike the film, there are no elements of Satanism, but there is Galbraith's phrase that "God's got a sick sense of humour" (which is a verbatim quote from Depeche Mode).