I’ve just heard on the radio someone, talking about the elections in the USA, saying:
We still have a president who supports God
This, taken at face value, is odd. The Abrahamic tradition says God is all-powerful and all-knowing. Now the President of the USA is quite powerful, but he isn’t omnipotent. And Donald Trump certainly isn’t omniscient either.
So why would an all-powerful God need the support of the US President? Would such support even make a difference to a supreme being? Imagine if I created a 4X computer game in the tradition of Civilisation or Rome Total War; would it matter to me if I had the support of some of the NPCs in my game? Clearly it would not.
Amused Cynicism 