While Western philosophical traditions have long taken interest in libertarianism about free will, Asian traditions have historically lacked interest in it. An explanation of the difference emerges from a survey of Confucian, Mohist, Daoist, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Zoroastrian, Greek, Jewish, Catholic, Calvinist, Arminian, Sunni, Shia, and contemporary philosophical traditions. Only Christian and Muslim theology requires reconciling God's perfection with worldly evil and the existence of Hell. The free will theodicy invokes libertarianism as a solution, making humans rather than God blameworthy for worldly evil, with Hell as a punishment for abusing free will. This history provides secular philosophers with debunking arguments against libertarianism as well as the supreme significance of free right action, both of which are commitments of the free will theodicy.