"Out of all the billions of planets, I don't believe this is the best God is capable of doing".
That kid is no better or worse than I am and deserves the best God can give her.
And Inferno, which depicts Dante as a swashbuckling antihero blasting his way through the nine circles of hell to rescue Beatrice, is the best God of War pretender yet.
At best, God gets you two things: First, a plausible prudential internal motivation to behave "morally" (because God will punish you if you don't), though of the same formal sort as the motivation you might have to obey a powerful state or a whimsical alien overlord.
And if it is not in God's power to choose to act contrary to what is best, God does not freely choose to do what is best.
I think Jovana, the wife of the cabbie Latham assaulted in 2003 said it best: "God will forgive him".
Human beings tend to assume that whatever group they happen to comprise is self-evidently the best, God's chosen ones -- and everyone else's equally passionately held belief that they are the chosen few is simply delusional.
In New York City, there's a street where you can stand before the childhood home of a man who said, "If this is the best god can do, I am not impressed".
This, then, is the best that God (the white God) can do.
