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Giants are up and the Steelers are down. I���m going to pick the Giants. And He���s right 80 percent of the time.��� So Madden���s son says, ���Yeah, but why can���t He do it 100 percent of the time?��� And the father looks at him sternly and says, ���Because footballs take funny bounces.��� CB: Oh, God that is funny! NM: Then the father says to the son, ���If I had to work that out, it would take 50 times more effort on my part, and it isn���t worth it.��� So, you see, my feeling has always been that the divine economy is very much with us all the time, but not totally, not totally, because the gods must focus and do not have complete powers. They have what they have, and it can be immense, but they don���t have more than that. I employ that principle all through The Gospel According to the Son, which is that God has other things to do besides taking care of His Son down here. CB: So the ethical is limited by a need to balance sacred energy on the fulcrum of divine purpose? My belief is that God didn���t create us, we created Him, but that may sound like blasphemy to you. NM: Well, that is beyond my purchase, and I don���t want to get into it. What I will say is that if we take the notion that God is capable of doing everything and anything at any given moment, it takes away the last of our human dignity. I much prefer the notion that God is just doing the best that He or She can do, or that it���s a marriage that They can do. I���ve never believed, for one moment, that God intervenes at every moment and takes care of everything. So my god is an existential god, a god that does the best that can be done under the circumstances. A tired general will HYLAND 19