Thank you for the response.

To be honest, I was disappointed in your initial response complete with personal insults. So you know, I would never ask a god for support in a crisis. I can say this honestly as I have had cancer for the past 20 years, the latest bout a few years of the infections, ICU, infections and sepsis – the near death kind. It would not occur to me to ask for divine intervention. Even when I was a sort-of believer I felt silly considering it.

I don’t believe in gods because there is no evidence that they exist. The claims of godly intervention continue to be debunked by science. If we believe things without evidence then we can believe just about anything – conspiracy theories included. I would be happy if there was a god – a loving god – with a promising afterlife.

There is a huge inconsistency in the way people give their gods credit for certain good things and impunity for others. I’m simply pointing that out.

On free will and choice, I do not think that we have complete free will. Our neural pathways are formed when we are young. A young person who has always seen their parent or parents respond to stress with violence will do the same. I can hardly blame them. I can’t say they could have chosen otherwise. That seems unlikely. Our nature and nurture limit the choices under which we can express our, so called, free will.

On the math questions, I would say that the laws of mathematics are “revealed” to exist and to be true. They are “discovered” by a person but they need to be proven using the physical properties and logic. I assume that you are angling for a discussion on whether your God was “discovered” or “invented” and am curious as to your perspective.

Do you have a more thoughtful response to the issue of your god’s seemingly random and inconsistent blessing allotment?

And all the thousands of others that die in car accidents were just unlucky or unworthy to get such a blessing. And children dying of cancer as we speak, with their parents praying and begging to their deity for some pity only to have their child die a slow painful death. I guess they were just unworthy. Yes, he works in mysterious ways.