"One way… is to allow humans to become his partners in overcoming that said evil… by discovering vaccines, liberating the oppressed, providing shelter for the homeless, or just holding the victim of a crime."

But all those are bound to come too late for some people, and justice delayed is justice denied. And none of those sound like a partnership to me; they sound like leaving it up to mankind.

Let me come at it another way. All those omni- attributes are an attempt to make god into something like mankind but greater. But whatever It may be, It is not human. And I have seen no sign that It cares about individual humans, unless you assume It practices favoritism.

So I feel the Kootenais are on the right track, because I find atheism inconceivable.

clint