Some skeptics can't grasp the idea of a "flying space wizard" is how they put it. They say they don't see how God works in everyday lives, and that religion is a method to control ignorant people. However, their perspective is flawed as they see things through a Logical stand point, and God, constructing life based off his almighty endless love, I believe thinks in an entirely moral perspective, therefore, people who base their ideas off of logic can never understand the motives of God and reject him.
My belief is God created life because it's well know he can do no evil, and to grant someone life is a tremendous act of purity. Now a days people become more skeptic due to a lack of "miracles" to proves God's presence. If you try and make yourself known to ants, they don't see you, they see a giant foot in the way, not a superior being. God made obvious contact with past civilization such as talking with Moses and Abraham because they did not consume themselves into the world around them with material needs, they had a mind toward God and would devote time to him to because they knew the value of a good faith. Meanwhile everyone else is like an ant in a colony, too focuses on only the thinks they "need done" to focus on faith. This most likely explains why God would pick poorer men as his vessels, they were not consumed with gluttony and wealth.
People ask, "Why does God let these bad things happen?" Because God loves everyone equally, and if he's to save one man, he must save everyone. If there is an earthquake and he saves one family over another, it would imply that he favors that family more, and to place individual he made as equal over the rest, it would be dehumanizing the rest of the world (this is why I do not worship the Vatican, or the pope). The same thing goes for retribution, if God was to punish one man, he would have to punish all, that is why everyone is damned to Hell, and only through forgiveness can they be accepted into Heaven.

I hate religious ignorance. Read a book about it and learn if you want the actual truth.