islam
good ideas from $deity
xian good ideas from $diety
Buddhist good ideas from $diety
mormons good ideas from $diety
Zoroastrians good ideas from $diety
then the bidness managers take over
have my own ideas about that $diety has a wicked sense of humor "you dont always get what you want but you get what you need" sometimes you need to think about that. In my personal case I have always gotten job's promise because I havnt topped myself yet :-)
If I were a gambling man, I'd say that the odds are way better for the "a bloke made it up for shits/giggles/beer/women/money" than they are for "it was a supernatural omniscient omnipotent being, who's remained oddly silent on the big issues ever since".
I assume my dad (a very devout man) got what he needed when God decided to pop his aortic aneurism?