The polytheistic religions captured a lot more diversity of thought than whatever God plays now. Schiller lamented the loss of the old gods that were replaced with idea of this impersonal God for this reason, or at least, one of the reasons for his lament. No monotheistic God captures something like Loki did as a trickster or a Greek tragic-comedy where the Gods punish some human in some comical way. To even think that God would be playing tricks on you goes against faith as such. Instead, what happens to you is because of your sin, it is a test of faith, it is part of a larger scheme, etc. What is missing in today is some element of that diversity of thought when it comes to explaining the way the world works. Instead of the consequences of some action coming back to you in the form of you being a sinner, or that it is a trick one of the gods are playing on you, it might just be funny the ways in which we struggle in the world end up, for a myriad of reasons.