I think the problems triggering the rise of atheism in the West and the skeptical, logical rejection of the theodicy contradiction (how the purely good, omnipotent Creator rules the world and yet evil exists, but God is not responsible for its existence) is in part caused by extravagant metaphysical speculation and grandiose religious framing of these profound, confusing subjects.
I attribute to Fate the power and responsibility for creating or being forever what is part good and part evil, and then God and Satan can battle their good versus evil war, likely forever, without anyone working too hard or worrying too much about solving the unresolvable theodicy contradiction. Metaphysical speculation is fruitful and productive, and worth engaging in, but we must get on with living; we still need God and morality in our lives, as objectively true as possible, and yet workable.
We can but may not need to pray all the time to the almighty deities like the Father, the Mother, or Jesus or Allah.
Perhaps we can pray to minor deities like the Good Spirits, angels that are former humans that made good, or have forever been angels or good spirits. Without interaction with minor deities being enough to function daily, we do not have to bother the major deities all the time, and nor do we need to grind to a halt metaphysically due to grappling with metaphysical mysteries that we just cannot solve or solve satisfactorily.
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