You know, when I was a believer I didn’t have any problem with that particular issue. I figured this life could possibly be like sitting through a movie, or maybe more like a holodeck, where everything is very convincingly real but after you die you walk out of the theater, and realize no one was actually harmed. It could have been like a training film. I think there’s lots better reasons for not believing in a literal god... like the total absence of evidence, and the abundance of evidence for alternate explanations. Just my 2 cents.

I personally believe God created the universe (some form of matrix system) and left it to its devices. I’m also polytheistic so I believe there are higher powers on both sides (duality).