existence but have railed against God’s nature, against the way God relates to the world, and consequently against theistic accounts of how humans ought to live in relation to God. Sometimes it feels as if they would not have minded God existing if they could have just believed that God is good for us. And this just underscores how difficult it is to make plausible to nonbelievers the connection between God and human flourishing. For the notion of what is “good for us”—and not just the existence
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