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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 9245420" data-attributes="member: 6807784">An always-benevolent god is actually rare in most religions, at least by my research, though others can disagree. The Christian God is really one of the very few whose believers maintain that it said God is a never-ending source of beneficial miracles and love. Look at the rest of the world and many gods, especially the highest in a pantheon, are very morally grey and, because of their almighty power, actually skewing towards evil-by-incompetence. Even the Christian God does incredibly wild things in the Old Testament (annihilating two cities, the flood); so, really, there is no religion I know of where everything is peaceful, loving, and beneficial. Most people fear their god(s) IRL just as much as they love them. If the gods are then actually made real and have direct impact on the world, then there has to be reason why these gods are fear -- they sometimes do things that have consequences that create said fear.Or in other words, it wouldn't be true to the human experience IMO if gods in the FR didn't do messed up things from time to time.</blockquote>