Ho-hum. Who doesn’t love a minor religious crisis on a Monday afternoon.
idk if feedback is what you’re looking for or not, but i don’t believe all of the gods love all humans, either. like you, i suspect that most of us are not even on the radar of the gods, and that their love is generally directed towards certain humans, with a sort of vague “well I don’t dislike humans, and/or want to see humanity do better” towards everyone else.
I think the “gods love everyone” rhetoric persists because it’s easier to say than to write out “the gods love everyone more or less, but probably not you dickheads, they probably don’t like you”. It creates a liability for the organization in question, and opens up a can of worms. It’s the same reason it gets hard to accurately judge others’ UPG and experiences–it opens up a can of worms and makes for liability issues. It’s just easier to Not Go There, with the understanding that not everyone is right, even though we don’t explicitly say it. In the same way that we don’t say “the gods probably dislike at least some of us” because it is a statement that can easily be used to hurt others.
Doesn’t sound as cool, but you gotta CYA when you’re heading a large group, and so it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s a factor.
I tend to agree with both of you: certain gods love certain humans but not everyone. I personally would find the idea that the gods love everyone annoying. Like I’m all for a little love and light once in a while, but as was pointed out in the OP, there’s just no way that it feasibly works when you consider how shit is going down in real time.
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