How do you know God isn't dead?

[smax]

why is assumed that he is still alive and well?

This largely depends on which religion you pose the question to.

In many religions God is not exactly alive so as to die. Moreover, in those same religions, God is immortal he or she cannot be destroyed.

In other religions Gods do die. In Christianity, Jesus dies on a cross, only to resurrect again (hits vid_restart on the rcon panel).
In ancient Egypt, it was believed that Osiris died and was resurrected by Isis using a spell she learned from her father.

It is true that the power of Gods seems to diminish as science and logic prevail but that is something different. It has to do with us (humans) using God as an answer to that which was mysterious and unknown.

In practice, God dies when people stop believing in his existence. So Zeus, is dead, but Rama is not.
I doesn't matter if the God really exists in the first place. What matters is that there are people who believe in his existence and are acting accordingly.

I made the exact same point in another thread:

God is only as alive or dead as man makes him

Like minds, my friend. Like minds.

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Yeah, but couldn't the writers have come up with a better god to delude themselves with?

Writers with the ability to think more creatively should have been chosen to write the mythology.

Writers with the ability to think more creatively should have been chosen to write the mythology.

I nominate Tolkien. His shit made sense.

Same page. If you are going to take the time to make some silly shit up, make it some good shit.

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I don't know, man, Godschild evidently spoke to him this morning. Speaking of which, I would have loved for more of the conversational details to have been divulged here.

I'm going to take a stab and say it was a very one-sided conversation.

Which one was doing the talking?