(October 11, 2020 at 9:55 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: In fairness, a god may be doing everything it can, and we just don't notice. This isn't a problem for the majority of gods that man has ever invented - the river goddess doesn't catch the charge for earthquakes, out of her aoe. With respect to the dominant monotheism of today, though - if this is what it looked like when god was doing it's level best to help....then people obviously have some malformed ideas about the extent of a gods abilities.
If there were a god of fish, or a god of small fruits - that would be of immense interest to producers. If a god could be enjoined to increase your harvest - that would be an ability that every producer would seek out. Among faithful producers, there is very often just such a belief, in greater or lesser forms. Asserted or merely hoped for. Transactional gods with eternally set pricing structures. Tell us about the god of fish, where can I find the god of small fruit? I have no use for a dead culture's wargod.
Pontus and Pomona, respectively.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
