User blog:Lover of the Muse/Even God can Die

If you look back throughout the Supernatural series you'll see that we were told repeatedly and by many different characters not to trust God. Part of the reason we didn't internalize this is that most of the characters telling us these things happened to be villains.

Lucifer, Amara, and Michael were all right about God. He's a vain jackass obssessed with his own grandiosity who doesn't really care about Creation.

In season 11 episode 21, after Chuck reveals himself as God to the Winchesters, Dean questions God about his inaction and why he allows so much suffering and evil to exist in the world. This paradox, how could all-good all-powerful god rule over an imperfect world is an ancient one. Chuck answers that in the old days he kept stepping in to teach and punish but nothing ever changed, he decided to be more hands off so that humanity could mature.

As a Libertarian I actually find this a satisfying solution to the problem of evil. It's certainly better than living in a Celestial Dictatorship. In hindsight however I should have smelled the bullshit. Juxtapose this scene against the previous episode "Don't call me Shurly" where Chuck says he left because "you disapointed me, you all disapointed me" and where Chuck was willing to allow Amara to destroy the entire world.

In season 14's "NIhlism", Alternate Michael gives a speech about his motives and ultimate plan. This conversation partially foreshadows the Moriah twist but I think it foreshadows events to come in season 15. After Moriah, God will create a new universe where Dean shoot Jack with the Equilizer and they both died. That might be where season15 opens. This conversation may also be foreshadowing for the end of the series; Team Free Will traveling from world to world until they catch up to God and try to kill him.
 * Michael: Me and my brother - my Lucifer - when we fought in my world, we thought that God would come back. Give us answers. Why he'd gone, what we'd done. But instead, you know what happened? Nothing. No God, nothing. And now - now that I'm in here - now I know why. God—Chuck is a writer. And like all writers, he churns out draft after draft. My world, this world, nothing but failed drafts. And when he realizes that they're flawed, he moves on and tries again.
 * Castiel: (...) Why would he do that?
 * Michael: Because he doesn't care! About you, me, anything. Now, at first, I thought I'd do it better. Show him. Be more God than God. But now? I just wanna burn every one of his little worlds until I catch up to the old man.
 * Castiel: And then what?
 * Michael: Even God can die.[2]