The ONLY excuse good enough for God?

[Tonus]

Ignorance may be the only way to heaven, for most.

That makes it sound as if god's plan depended on most people accidentally stumbling into the truth. But that doesn't square with the depiction of god in the Bible: he is personally involved in the lives and events of many people, performing miracles and grand and powerful gestures and delivering profound teachings all the time. Why would he suddenly stop and decide to make salvation a spiritual game of Russian Roulette?

Why do so many explanations for god make him seem either ill-prepared, foolish, or very mean?

Lets face it.... there isn't much in the way of "proof" for either of us. But existence itself is a more compelling argument for God, than against.

But only because of gaps in our knowledge. Lightning itself used to be a "more compelling argument for God, than against" at one time, due to lack of proof. So was the diversity of life. And any number of other phenomena for which we have explanations that do not require a god, now that we have discovered how they really work or happen. The rational approach is to think that any phenomena for which we do not yet have an explanation will not turn out to be supernatural. The track record is bare in that regards.