If the Judeo-Christian god is first in line, with none others before him, that line should be at the unemployment office. Not because we need him to provide jobs, but because he doesn’t. There are thousands upon thousands of unemployed fathers and mothers who pray and wait in vain these days for any half-crappy job — preferably one that makes it possible with great restraint and resourcefulness to both buy food and pay the electric bill.
I know about unemployment offices because two times in my life, when a young adult, I had the demeaning privilege of asking for assistance in finding a job.
That there are unemployment offices across our land being visited by Christians is evidence to me that their god ought to get in line because he needs a job he can succeed at.
Truth is, thanks to public education, science, technology and the forward march of civilization, there is much less work for a god to do. The work has not been shipped overseas, but has been transported from the supernatural realm to the natural, where things get done. Insuring bountiful crops, curing disease, punishing transgressors for their “sins” (crimes) — for these we’ve got agribusiness, the medical profession, and penal systems. Etc. Etc.
For centuries the role of gods has been shrinking. What jobs are left? To provide humans something mindless to say after a person sneezes?
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