Life is game or a play according to Hinduism, and the great showman is God. An enlightened hindu would say that you are "it" or God because you are the universe looking through itself in an Alan Watts sort of way. That can upset people because they always believed that their suffering would lead them something.
I think the "Idea of Evil" or "The Desired God" from The Breserk Manga is a good example of why Idea of God is important to people who believe in him. The theme of causality is a central theme to Berserk and that entity was created by the desire for humans to have a destiny or meaning to their life's and deaths. So it's the Desired God's job to shape events, good or bad, to fulfill that purpose.
Maybe I haven't answered the question or even made any sense, but what I'm trying to do here is give you guys something to think about.
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