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First, here’s the obvious question at this time: What is God the god of?

Sure, I’m going somewhere with this.

Gods are gods of things, right? Things like fire, birth, or War III.

But for those of us inhabiting the world that sprang from Greek and Roman imperialism (“the West”), “God” usually refers to a singular figure whose jurisdiction is hard to define.

Condense an osmosis-based understanding of what the Bible allegedly says into something like the monopolistic god of irritable omnipresence, an...