"Alright, there are quite a lot of you, and I have something else on my mind, but I'll try to answer your questions. Now, since most of you seem to be asking some variant of 'are you god?', I have to reply with a question: Can you please define god for me?'"

This did not do a great deal to calm the religious riots.

Nor did the next message, heard by everyone in or around Earth, "Well, bother. To answer your question about me being god, it's complicated. I did not create the universe, nor did I create your planet. However, since you can hear me, I do hold some responsibility for your species being your species."

As the violence rapidly escalated, more messages were heard, "No, no, stop that!", "Would you please stop doing those things to one another!?", "No, not those either!"

After half an hour of this, with the voice becoming more frustrated, there was another message, "Alright, STOP!"

With that, the vast majority of the people on the planet had a blinding flash of light fill their vision, and they collapsed, out cold.

Unfortunately, this was not, necessarily, a survivable experience for some people, nor for their passengers, or those otherwise impacted by others no longer being at the controls of various things.

Quite a few fewer people were capable of hearing the next, "Oh, bother."