The god of this morbidly disinformed world is never going to deliver humankind from evil. It would put him out of the temptation business.
In actuality, instead of directing one's mind and will in supplication to a hypothetical entity, one is responsible for delivering oneself from the interests of power. One can be assisted but not delivered. The key, of course, is in the quality of information. As humankind is discovering, it takes only a bit of good information to help raise the individual to actual sapience and keep the powerful from flooding the world again.
It appears that humankind is a relatively new hybrid species undergoing trial by fire. The difficulty of our existential test is most likely proportional to our marvelous capacity. We have it all, after all. Sapience has chosen to dwell with us. We have struggled, mostly in the dark, to overcome its pitfalls.
If God exists, he is a wholly sapient being with unshakable discipline dedicated to allowing humankind to find its own way, as it should be. We are not pets. If he exists, I am acting as his ace in the hole. It appears that I am the intervention. If that is the case, the one who is me volunteered to act in this capacity. This is how it makes sense for one to be both father and son of man. In between is the spirit of sapience: the transcendent, light producing form available in each of us. It is what is at work here. With a sapient spirit, one can be plunged into existential darkness and find the way out. Love is the essence of sapience.
Together we made all of this in a few thousand years, from earth. How marvelous is that?
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