Demons?

[Chad32]

And then seeing how poorly giving someone free will goes, when you're as much of a control freak as Yahweh is, he still gave it to humans. This deity isn't very smart.

Maybe God has a reason for doing it that we don't know? That would make Him smarter than us, not dumber.
If God really does exist, we would expect Him to be this way, wouldn't we?

Well unless he comes down and explains just what he's doing, he seems more like some insane person who doesn't know what he's doing. He wants followers, but won't show himself to anyone anymore. He wants to give us free will, but kills people for doing things that come natural to us, sometimes in ways that are just as destructive to his followers as anyone else. If there's no coherence in what he's doing, then it just makes him look bad and doesn't really teach us anything beyond blind obedience.