Straight: God is the creator of the world, the designer of the human race, and the supreme power in the universe. He also considers humans to be nothing but a culture of bacteria He is experimenting with, to be snuffed out when they overextend their bounds - or when He grows tired of the experiment.
The protagonist begins the story believing God Is Evil, but comes to see that God was really looking out for him all along, in a roundabout kind of way.
Zig Zagged: God keeps the world in a miserable state, but He reveals to the heroes that this is for humanity's development.... until God sends the heroes to Hell to be relentlessly tortured For the Evulz.
God imposes a Constitution onto himself and turns the Celestial Bureaucracy into a democracy.
God's followers explain to everyone that God isn't evil, but He's causing all of these tragedies and catastrophes as a way to give humanity a wake-up call and that they all need to repent.
"The LORD your God is good and righteous. How dare you accuse your creator evil!"
Discussed: "If absolute power corrupts absolutely than where does that leave God?" — George Deacon
Conversed:
"With all those Fundamentalist rants, who would want to worship a God like that?"
"God or the Devil? They're probably the same thing anyways."
