God and the dilemma with unfalsifiability

[mordant]

Theists, are you comfortable knowing that the thing you worship will never reveal himself to you?
He will never help you when you are ill. He will never be your wingman in battle. Never protect you from harm.

Today I was with friends and the topic of the earthquake in Mexico City came up. It was mentioned that 11 members of a family were killed as they were attending a religious ceremony together at the time. I remarked that considering god is supposed to bless the righteous and confound the wicked, that is a pretty painful thing for a religious person to experience.

To my astonishment, one of my friends, who is not a church-goer or particularly even a theist, thought that remark was in bad taste as he somehow thought I was making fun of these folk's misfortune when I was objecting to it.

Religious people -- or those who sympathize with them (this guy's wife is a devoted member of the Salvation Army) don't want to even have it pointed out that god will never help you or reveal himself to you. Or any other inconvenient truth.

So my conclusion is that yes theists are perfectly comfortable as they simply pretend these things aren't issues. All they see is life's blessings, which they attribute to their god, and everything else is all the fault of specific humans or humanity in general or some proxy like Satan, or -- to the extent god has anything to do with it, it's his "Mysterious Ways". Easy-peasey.