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* Fairly stereotypical example with [[Jack Nicholson]]'s character in ''[[The Bucket List]]''. He's bitter, cynical, extremely unpleasant to most people he interacts with, and claims to envy people with faith even if he doesn't understand what it's about.

* In Bergman's ''Fanny and Alexander'', the titular kids endure a lot: their father dies, and their mother marries the rigid [[Anti-Villain|Bishop Vergerus]]. Leaving behind the comfortable lives they'd known with their affluent family, they move to the Bishop's austere home (like a dungeon, with bars on the windows), and give up all their possessions. Alexander's defiance frightens Vergerus, who [[Disproportionate Retribution|thrashes him brutally]] (perhaps the boy's imaginative explanation—for the death of the Bishop's first wife--[[Accidental Truth|wasn't such an outrageous fiction]]?). {{spoiler|After a miraculous escape--but the children's safety isn't certain, not permanently}}—Alexander muses, "If there is a god, then he's a shit, and I'd like to kick him in the butt."

* The "what sort of God allows this to happen" trope is used in ''[[Cube|Cube Zero]]'': {{spoiler|at the end of the titular [[Death Trap]] 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 says ''he doesn't know'': ''no one'' has ever said "Yes".}}

* Admiral Motti from [[Star Wars]] : [[A New Hope]] is pretty much the [[Recycled in Space]] equivalent of this, as far as expressed contempt for the [[Star Wars]] universe's equivalent of religious belief goes. Vader chokes him for his insolence.