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<\/a><\/div>\nI recently watched the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans<\/a> To the extent that the gods in question express their wrath through floods, famines, lightning, and other forces of nature, it is true to say that humans have been fighting a war to outsmart such \u201cgods\u201d \u2013 and we have been winning. We have found ways of overcoming famine, protecting ourselves from lightning, and in other ways taming or managing the effects of forces of nature.<\/p>\n This is one reason why liberal Christian thinkers embrace our scientific understanding of such phenomena. The alternative is to think of many gods or only one who is neither omnipotent nor ultimate \u2013 he\/they may send plagues to punish us, but we regularly find cures. And one of the questions the film asks is whether gods who demand our worship but are fallible and regularly disappoint are deserving of our worship.<\/p>\n And so there is some useful theological food for thought in the film. In reflecting on it in a context in which monotheism is the norm, it is worth pointing out that reducing many deities to one is not itself enough in order to come up with a coherent view of the divine. At best, one ends up with a deity whose actions and thinking are harder to make any sense of than in the case of the deities of ancient Greece. It is crucial to disconnect God from forces of nature. A deity whose attempts to punish humankind through storms and diseases can be thwarted is at least as problematic as a deity thought of as using such imprecise weapons in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n