There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

The remark pushes back against a common theological and moral reflex: blaming God (or “fate”) for suffering and wrongdoing that actually arises from human choice. It implies a strong view of moral agency—people possess free will, and with it responsibility for the harms they cause. In that frame, invoking God as the author of evil becomes a kind of evasion, shifting accountability away from human actors and the social conditions they create. The sentiment also resonates with Christie’s recurring interest in motive and culpability: evil is not a metaphysical abstraction but something enacted by ordinary individuals, often rationalized after the fact.