# God's busy -we need to look after ourselves.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-busy-we-need-to-look-after-ourselves/371030>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 1, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-busy-we-need-to-look-after-ourselves/371030 "2006-09-01T02:33:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-busy-we-need-to-look-after-ourselves/371030/21 "2006-09-01T07:07:46Z")

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[Here is a plausible God.](http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2004/08/19/boll/story.gif)

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-busy-we-need-to-look-after-ourselves/371030/22 "2006-09-01T13:17:12Z")

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[QUOTE=astro]  
If God is intelligent God’s got to focus, and being focused requires some degree of exclusion.  
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Only if you think of God as “a “superhuman” God, as if God is just like us, only bigger and better.”

In other words, the best response to this is the very passage you quoted.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-busy-we-need-to-look-after-ourselves/371030/23 "2006-09-01T13:49:36Z")

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[QUOTE=DianaG]  
Was “omnipotent” redefined while I wasn’t paying attention?  
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Don’t forget, Yahweh the [Demiurge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge) is not omnipotent (for which we should be thankful!), and the supreme God doesn’t much care about us. (See [Gnosticism.)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism)

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**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-busy-we-need-to-look-after-ourselves/371030/24 "2006-09-01T15:27:07Z")

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]  
Got a much, much better one:  
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The variation on that joke that I’ve heard is:

There was a devout Christian who prayed every day to win the lottery. After years of constant prayer, he began to doubt God. One night during his evening prayer, he asked, “God, I’ve prayed every day for years to win the lottery, and I’ve never won. Am I not a good Christian worthy of having my prayers answered? What do I need to do for you to help me?”

The answer came back: “FOR CHRIST’S SAKE, BUY A TICKET!”

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