> This is very tiresome.
and yet you contribute to it! :-)
>
> Here are some alternatives:
>
> 1. There is a god, but she is not particularly concerned with the
> survival of individual humans.
>
> 2. God did issue a warning, but only "primitive" tribes and wild animals
> were able to hear it.
>
> 3. Our notions of innocence/guilt are laughable and we are even more
> idiotic for thinking that God ascribes to these as well.
try the book of Job, a biblical book that covers pretty much all three of these, excluding the "she" part -- job's god is, alas, irretrievably masculine.
j