God does not follow the first principle of morality. Why not?

[System of Solace]

look at the dark ages, and even the cival war. It thins the heard it forces us to clean and wash our monkey butts so we do not live in filth. So we bury or burn our dead so we care for our water and food. It only serves no purpose if you think we would do any of these things with the threat of sickness or death.

It's funny because people thought stuff like the black plague were curses by god. Naturally, religion slows scientific advance. Again. Instead of trying to put in place proper sanitary measures, they looked to the church. Which helped in doing absolutely nothing useful.