Let’s say due to unforeseen circumstances you suddenly find yourself in a position to choose a god for your worship. If you want to, you may concoct elaborate hypotheticals leading up to this choice, e.g. nearly dying and being informed in no uncertain terms that yes, a higher power does exist, but not given any information about the particular flavour of divinity. So you figure your guess is as good as anyone’s, and, after thorough research into the benefits and drawbacks each deity has to offer, or after throwing darts at wikipedia’s list of deities (might be useful to print that out beforehand, though), you pick and choose your god, and worship him/her/it/schkler henceforth.
Which one would it be?
I don’t think we’ll have to restrict ourselves to gods from real religions – since not all of them can be right, this means that nearly all of them must be fiction, and thus, we can just as well incorporate fictional deities.
Note that I don’t wish to start a discussion about religion, so just regard this as a subject of idle curiosity.
In other words, who’s your favourite god?
Myself, out of a still-echoing childhood fondness for ancient Egypt, I’d probably choose Thoth, the scribe of the Egytian gods, and patron of arts as well as science. Plus, I’ve always liked the word ‘Ibis’.
Damn! Now I’m wondering if I’ve seen that thread and forgot about it… I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to steal your thread idea.
However, the focus of this thread is a little different in that it just asks for a favourite god, without the intent to make that one reality, so I’m hoping this one will stay as benign as it has so far.
Again, sorry for playing inadvertent copycat, I did in fact do a search (albeit not a very thorough one, since I got distracted by something shiny during the mandatory waiting period), but it’s a bit unfortunate that god’s just a three-letter word.
I’m pretty happy with the one I’ve got right now, or at least my own interpretation of him.
If I had to change, though, I’d probably pick Death from the Endless. She’s a hottie, and has a great personality despite the depressing career. (Though, by believing in one, it kind of brings in her brothers and sisters, many of whom would be downright frightening to have hanging around.)
Well, if I was choosing a god from the fiction I’ve read I’d probably go for Gird, from Elizabeth Moon’s The Deed of Paksenarrion. Gird wasn’t exactly a god, more like what a Christian would call a patron saint, someone held in special regard, to whom prayers are offered, and whose example is followed. But I liked what I read about him, and asking for his aid, if you really believed, could get concrete results.