10 Pontifications on Theodicy
1. The God you serve is the God you deserve.
2. What kind of God would program noble values into a person, and then bully him into sycophancy?
3. If God loves sycophancy more than integrity, I don't want God's love.
4. The God who created you is at least as wise as you are. If you find yourself worshipping a God who is not as wise as you are, assume not that you should dumb down to accommodate Him, but rather that you should wise up.
5. Only an evil god would allow his creation's good & evil evaluator to become corrupt and then judge him by an uncorrupted standard. A righteous god would judge his creature by the creature's standard, and change that standard if he doesn't like it.
6. Nothing screws up a person's sense of justice more than faith in an unjust God.
7. Serving your God is good only if your God is good.
8. If there is an afterlife, and the quality it depends on believing things that appear improbable, then the creator of the system is evil.
9. If a creator (Supreme Being or otherwise) does not provide worthwhile life to those members of his creation who prove worthy of it, then that creator is evil. Proving worthy of worthwhile life does not imply never erring. It implies trying not to err, and trying to correct errors made.
10. If you seek a righteous God, then act in a manner worthy of a righteous God. Only those who are willing to defy an unrighteous God are worthy of a righteous God.