Ryan’s Reviews > Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power > Status Update

"The materially poor may well be grateful for the concrete assistance provided by "benevolent god players," and be glad to be out from under the thumb of "malevolent god players." But even at its best, such god playing does nothing to alter, let alone transform, the most basic reality of poverty, which is the presence of irresistibly powerful god substitutes in the life of the poor.