It is said that some people outsource malicious evil.
Actually it stands to reason that everybody has done it.
They are not malicious themselves, but they delegate the harming to others. They are not directly cruel. But they are worse than cruel for this is very underhanded. They are subconsciously vicious. They want to be desensitized and keep desensitized. And they will lose any sense of empathy. Typically, they let wrongdoing happen without lifting a hand.
Many think or feel they outsource. They project the evil intent they want to happen unto others. They feel pure. This can be psychological and/or magical. Maybe psychic or paranormal.
In some mystical or esoteric traditions, someone might think or sense they direct negative energy toward another through intention or thought, but use intermediaries (people, animals, or even objects) to carry it out. The harm manifests indirectly, while the originator stays “clean.”
This more often than not, is subconscious.
It is possible this may be more likely or stronger in a person who is not a naturalist - who thinks there's a realm above nature. No religious believer claims to know what he is dealing with for belief is not complete knowledge. A naturalist dismisses miracle, magical and paranormal speculations.
An attempt to outsource can be subconscious or deliberate or both. People get some pleasure from feeling that bad has happened to another because of prayer or some magical wish. It is not clear to what extent this is an attempt or a placebo.
The attempted use of paranormal or prayerful means to hurt others may show what you think of God. He surely is distorted by you into something that serves you even to the extent of being okay with your malice or helping you to get even supernaturally with an enemy. It would support how God is more based on a psychological projection than anything else.
Many people devote themselves to religion, God, ministry, prayer and good works, consciously or unconsciously as a way to counterbalance the malice they outsource or project onto others. In what might be called “Evil by Proxy,” individuals may avoid direct cruelty, yet allow harm to occur through intermediaries—people, circumstances, or even intentions—while maintaining the illusion of innocence. Acts of kindness, ritual, or devotion can function as a psychic or moral accounting, an attempt to cleanse themselves of the underhanded viciousness they release indirectly. Whether this compensation is effective or merely a placebo, it reflects a human desire to reconcile a sense of moral self with the darker impulses one refuses to confront directly.