re: #189 GunstarGreen
I don’t disagree that there are plenty of highly visible god-botherers who do in fact argue in the way you describe. But I think it’s worth pointing out that lots of religious people of all stripes have a much more ambivalent view of what god is and does.
I mean, that ambivalence is in the Bible (which happens to be the text I’m most familiar with). It’s not all thou shalt and thou shalt not.