• If every vulnerable, poor, neglected, or suffering person bears something sacred, then harming them is, in a spiritual sense, harming God.
• A society that exploits, ignores, dehumanizes, or destroys people is therefore acting against the divine image present in them.
• In that framework, "God killing" is not literally killing God, but participating in actions that deny human dignity, compassion, or sacred worth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky explored the idea that cruelty toward others is also a rejection of the divine. Martin Luther King Jr. argued that injustice against human beings is a moral and spiritual offense against God's creation.