God is praised as the creator of everything. The almighty ruler. The ultimate source of love, goodness, and order. Yet His track record tells a different story. If we judged Him by the world He built, He would be the biggest loser of all time. The planet He supposedly governs has been soaked in blood, ignorance, and despair since the beginning.
The brutal world before science
Before the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, human life was nothing short of hell. Life expectancy at birth hovered around ten years for most of human history. That means most children never reached adulthood.
Hunger was constant. Thirst killed as often as disease. There was no medicine, no sanitation, no safety, and no hope. People watched their families die from infections we now treat with simple pills. Plagues swept through villages and cities, leaving corpses in the streets.
Wars, genocides, and infanticides were not rare events but everyday realities. One tribe starved, so it killed another. Men raided and enslaved because survival demanded it. People lived in constant fear of death, injury, or hunger. Out of roughly 105 billion humans who have ever lived, nearly all lived and died in misery.
Religious people often romanticize the past. They speak of faith, simplicity, and divine order. Yet life back then was not peaceful. It was chaotic, brutal, and endlessly painful.
The dominance of evil
If God existed and cared, He had done nothing to prove it. Evil dominated the story of humanity.
Cruelty, slavery, and violence shaped every civilization. Natural disasters erased millions of lives without a sign of mercy. The weak were crushed. The poor were born to suffer. Every empire built its greatness on corpses.
If there is a moral God, why has He tolerated such horror? The scale of suffering defies any idea of divine goodness. If this is His design, then evil has always been the engineer.
Creating biological robots was not a good idea
If humans are God’s image, then His reflection is deeply flawed. Evolution produced beings that think, feel, and destroy — all at once. We are biological robots programmed for survival, not wisdom.
Our brains mix logic with rage, empathy with envy, love with cruelty. We can invent medicine, then build bombs. We can feel compassion, then commit genocide. Creating such unstable creatures was not divine brilliance. It was reckless engineering.
A perfect creator would not design intelligent apes who destroy their own planet. If this is His masterpiece, it says more about His incompetence than His greatness.
Where has God been?
Through all this pain, there has been silence. Plagues came. Famine spread. Wars slaughtered millions. No divine hand stopped it. No miracle saved the innocent.
If He planned this, the plan is monstrous. If He did not, He is powerless. Either way, His absence speaks louder than every sermon ever preached.
Why does God not act morally behind us?
Believers say that God gave us free will. That sounds noble, until we see what it really means. Free will allows humans to rape, kill, and destroy, while God watches in silence.
If He is moral, why does He not act morally behind us — guiding us, correcting us, limiting our cruelty? What kind of god lets His creatures butcher one another and calls it freedom? A moral creator would prevent evil, not judge it after the fact.
Allowing murder and suffering while hiding behind the excuse of free will is not morality. It is negligence.
By the way, we have no free will (250 Arguments for Atheism, Jan Bryxí 2025)
Human progress without divine help
Everything good that exists came from human effort. Science, not faith, cured diseases. Capitalism, not prayer, lifted billions out of hunger. Technology, not scripture, gave people comfort and safety.
As people stopped waiting for divine miracles, progress began. Education and reason expanded empathy. Laws replaced vengeance. Medicine replaced superstition. Humanity began to build the world that God never did.
God’s poor record
Look at His record. No inventions, no discoveries. No visible compassion. Just silence, chaos, and excuses.
His followers waged holy wars and inquisitions in His name. His laws justified slavery, sexism, and intolerance. He promised salvation and delivered hell on Earth. Every supposed revelation brought more division, not peace.
A god who rules through fear and silence is not a leader. He is a failure worshipped as a savior.
The human creation of morality
Morality did not descend from the sky. It evolved from survival, empathy, and cooperation.
Every culture built its own version of right and wrong. People fought and died to reach even this fragile sense of decency. Morality changed with knowledge, not with prayer. The diversity of moral systems proves that it was made by humans, not dictated by God.
The truth is harsh but liberating: we invented more logical morality because He never did.
Humanity’s triumph over divine failure
The real heroes of history are not prophets or priests but doctors, inventors, and thinkers. Humans created vaccines, hospitals, and schools. They built peace treaties, democracies, and humanitarian aid. They learned to care for one another without divine permission.
Every genuine step forward came from reason, not revelation. The better humans became, the less they needed God.
Conclusion
The supposed creator built flawed biological robots, abandoned them to evil, and demanded worship for it. His world was pain, His silence endless, His achievements nonexistent.
If He exists, His record is catastrophic. If He does not, then humanity’s rise from misery is the greatest miracle of all — one made not by a god, but by us.
For further reading: 250 Arguments for Atheism (Jan Bryxí 2025) – a completely free e-book
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