Good god

I’ve always thought people were attracted to God because of the promised after life. Now I’m starting to think God represents good luck, hence the title god.

Throughout history, people have generally had a shit time of it, and good luck is needed to get ahead and avoid pain.

So why not pray to the God of luck? Not that it works but gamblers tend to keep going anyway.

Affluence in the West has partially killed the need for luck, and hence god has waned.

Science doesn’t require luck and is therefore anti-god. You either know or you don’t.

Not all thing are knowable though. So science can’t address all the matters previously assigned to the divine. Let’s call this the luck gap.

Actually, radical uncertainty is the luck gap. This is the wedge that the religions need to exploit.