I always see people giving thanks. I suppose they believe God only as smart as our smartest physician; or God only as strong as our strongest military; or God only as powerful as our largest pharmaceutical conglomerate; or God only as merciful as our largest winning lottery. I could never lift my eyes and give thanks for these things - this is the equivalent of believing that God can do nothing of true worth, having no true power in the land of the living, making God an idol of the dead (where those who give thanks believe God exemplifies power). Those who give thanks should plainly see that all the idols of this place equally do nothing together in life, making their god no less an idol than the next. If those who give thanks see God in the land of the living, then they will find it absurd to compare the power of God to the intelligence of men; or the justice of God to crooks who sit behind pulpits and on chairs in high places; or the unique strangeness of God to the anthropoid qualities of humanity; or the kindness of God to the voltage of a defibrillator. If those who give thanks see God in the land of the living, then they might apply as much common sense to God as they do their own mother or brother. And when they apply their sense to God, they will plainly see how horrible God treats humanity, and how horrible humanity treats itself - adding burden onto chaos, ending in death. If those who give thanks exchange their many songs for true justice, and their endless worship for compassion, and their trust in money and idols for faith in God and what they plainly see God doing, then they will no longer receive maltreatment from God, and will live long and peacefully with God in the land of the living without the shame of decrepitness.
