God as V?

Have you seen the movie V for Vendetta?

Last week, my roommate and I watched that enjoyably dramatic and angsty movie. There's a part in the movie where a girl named Evey is arrested and tortured by the British government. Her head is shaved and she lives in a cold dark cell when she's not being interrogated. It's not a fun time. Her interrogators want to know the location of V (a violent but articulate and lovable terrorist), but Evey refuses to give them any information. One last time, they threaten her with death if she again refuses to compromise: She says she'd rather die. Her captor says that she is now truly free and leaves. What? She tentatively walks out of her cell and emerges into V's underground home. She discovers that her whole captivity was set up by her supposed friend V. He is the one who tortured her and shaved her head and threatened her. V says that he did it out of love and without enjoyment to free her from her constant fear, and he did. She's not afraid anymore. But does the ends justify the means? You know, V really loves her; he wasn't malicious in the way that people often think of God when they picture him doing what V did.

I'd never thought of this before when watching this movie, but in light of our discussion and Lewis's beliefs on the purpose of pain...could God be like V? Ultimately, God has complete control over all our circumstances, like V did over Evey's. Could it be that God uses things in our lives like V did? Is He the one torturing us all for our good? We often say that God allows these things in our lives rather than causing them, like V did. And I believe this because, in the end, Evey doesn't really accept that V did this to her. He understands why but she doesn't; how could someone she trusted put her through so much pain? Anyway, the last time I watched that movie, the idea of V as God just grabbed me. I don't think that God really works the way V did, but it's interesting to think about.