the one thing we can know about God...

[Huis Clos]

...is described by this syllogism:

1. God has a plan for all of us, and none of us can avoid participating in
that plan.
2. God has created us in such a way to be unable to understand His plan.
Ergo, God is a Machiavellian scumbag, a manipulator, and a user.

I could add that God has created us in such a way that we experience a need
to understand His plan and then deliberately arranged for that need to go
unmet, which makes Him an *abusive* manipulator and user; but not everyone
experiences that need, so God is not abusive to all of us in that way.

I can understand believing in the existence of God because it's
incontrovertible, but, given that He is demonstrably evil, I can't
understand worshipping Him. Is it purely a matter of knuckling under to God
because he has absolute power over us? I don't get it.