An Evil Index

[mrnoodle]

People just aren't that smart. We make dumb choices all the time, despite what we know to be right. "I can beat that train," "I know I'm married, but who will ever know?", "Yes, the volcano's going to erupt, but I'm not leaving my house dammit."

So God appears to everyone, completely erases all doubt of his existence, and manages to convince us that we're not hallucinating. Hell, maybe even Radar is convinced. Then what? When you have kids, and you tell them "God appeared to me," they'll look at you like you've just gotten off the bus from Mars. A thousand years go by, and people reading our record of what we saw God do (our Bible, so to speak) will have the choice to believe it or not. Cue wars, biblical theme parks, blogs, ad infinitum.

Unless what you're saying is that God has to personally appear in Technicolor to every member of his creation at whatever point they decide they want to see him or else they're not going to believe. That wouldn't be a God, that would be your own little dog and pony show. Maybe after the first couple thousand years of people saying, "Oh yeah? PROVE there's a God," he just got a little bored with the whole thing.