I saw this putative battle of the giants online like this battle has significance. God is mostly theist, and has a little bit of the atheist in Him and Her. Gentle verbal disputes between earnest, nonviolent, articulate extremist theists and atheists should unfold without anyone becoming overwrought, vindictive or abusive.
Here is where the real battle is being fought, and the children of light and the children of dark are not aware of their battling each other in this most important engagement, relegated by pundits and the media to some out-of-the way spot.
Mother and Father are moderates. They sponsor and champion love, individualism, individuating, spiritual goodness and moral goodness. They realize and preach that bad means are worse than a bad end. Atheism is a bad end, but is harmless, overall, as long as it is not Mao's vicious, atheist, totalitarian government enforcing it on millions of people.
This is why they urge believers and followers of any good deity, including Deselves, to work against atheism and satanism by persuasion and peaceful exhortation, where ever possible.
The individual is only spiritually and morally good if she chooses to so live and act of her ow free will. The means to persuade her must be moderate, gentle, logical and without consequences when she rebuffs the proselytizer.
To pass laws, to grow government and any kind of institution is to grow groupism, extremism, totalitarianism and hatred. These coercive means corrupt all, and the coercive means is satanism in operation.
For this reason, let the atheists and theists have their verbal dispute, but peaceful debate and tolerance of dissenting but decent nonconformists must be the acceptance ground rule of reaction by all parties.
In this way, the battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness will see more victories for our side, for the advancement of the cause of the Good Spirits,
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