Phoenix Maplewood Why did God create atheists?

@John . I recently read this story - https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/20...ssion.html - and I really loved it. :)

With spring days growing longer and sunnier Esma found herself drawn to explore more outside the safe confines of the Riverclan. The discovery of the first flowers - a crocus of sort - and then as the days went by, more green plants sprouting out of the ground, had prompted her to expand the area she was interested in. It turned out that she had a very good memory, when it came to plants. With the difference of her recognizing them by their scents rather than names or looks. Part of that was due to her eyesight not being very well attuned to the details, her world was more like an impressionist painting than a photograph. But she did not know that it could look different and this did not bother her. 

Another reason she no longer stuck around her home was her mother's new preoccupation with the younger siblings. She had not visited them to see up close, preferring to keep her distance and joining adults for hunts. Esma did not feel jealous of them, nor did she harbour any ill feelings towards her mom. Rather she felt indifferent. No connection to them at all. They were alien to her and being a person, who had a difficult time to include new people in her group of acquaintances, she did not even try. 

Esma's new hobby of memorizing plants by scents had brought her all the way to a maplewood forest, where she discovered that from a gash in one maple-trees' trunk sap was trickling down. It was watery and smelled sweetly and the girl moved closer to give it a taste.