Divine Hiddenness

[Angrboda]

You realize, of course, that in fiction characters may act in whatever way their author wants them to act, don't you?

Great; and do you realize that religious people, regardless of being convinced of God's existence, nevertheless act in ways inconsistent with that belief?

You do as well—its normal human behavior. You procrastinate despite knowing your work is due. You don't eat right or exercise despite knowing the consequences. The list goes on—knowledge does not equal behavioral change. This work of fiction seems to have nailed it on the head don't you agree?

The point is that in the context of a discussion about an argument for God's existence, assuming the verisimilitude of these stories is textbook begging the question. You can't make predictions about how people would react to actual perception of God's existence based upon assuming mythology and folksy analogies. People both do and do not behave consonant with knowledge they possess. How they would act in specific situations is why psychology involves research. Additionally, you're attempting to argue the norm via the exception. That's logically invalid.

Maybe it just goes to show the actual insincerity of theist belief instead of some grand truth about human nature?

And neither procrastination nor eating/exercising are parallels. Your analysis is so facile that it's embarrassing coming from a student of the human mind.