Dwarf Fortress: The only God Game that makes you believe God exists and is acutally having Fun!
If you're wondering why a benevolent God lets bad things happen, you've never played DF.
DF: The Answer to the God Paradox!
Reading a book called Farseer, and while a thinly disguised anit-religious novel (like Golden Compass) it deals with a situation where the characters (intelligent velociraptors called quintaglios) have a religious system that makes sense until someone invents the telescope, then the main character gazes upon the sun, stars, the 13 moons, the 3 or 4 currently visible planets (of 9), and the Face of God (female) and comes to the conclusion that ALL of them are spherical (creates a simple model in his ship cabin*) and decides that The Face of God isn't God, but a
planet and that they live on one of the planet's
14 moons.**
The problem with this knowledge is that if the "Face of God" isn't God, then either:
"It's turtles all the way down": God created them, someone else created god, someone else created that all the way to infinity, which is absurd.
OR
If God has no creator, then there is no need for God at all (the universe may as well have created itself). But if there is no God, then there is no Afterlife, and if there is no Afterlife, then there's no reason for people to behave properly. Quintaglios would stop repressing their territorial instincts and they'd only join up in groups for the hunt, leading to anarchy.
God(s) is(are) necessary for
civilization, but not for the
universe.
*Their world has a single landmass exactly 180 degrees around from the side facing The Face of God and doesn't rotate (relative) much like our own moon does. It's a 130 day boat trip.
**Some of the 13 visible moons travel both against the stars sometimes, indicating that they have a narrower orbit than their own.
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