On the other hand, if the existence of God means "that we are presided over by a loving deity," this obviously has greater practical impact.

But why should a loving deity who presides over us not drop in for a friendly conversation, accompanied by convincing public demonstrations?

She is loving deity, advising the denizens of the world of Toril on how to maintain nature, to ensure its conservation.

She resents destruction or obliteration of any sort, and in this light, she is seen therefore as a benevolent and loving deity.

To be sure, there are always convoluted theological explanations for why predictions of a benign universe ruled by a loving deity are so often violated.

In this duet a man does most of the dancing to the sound of a sitar while a woman enters and exits as a healing love deity.

Holt asks "what sort of event might unsettle an atheist's conviction" about this loving deity, and he dismisses the answer given by Bertrand Russell.

They were a release from the harsh rigors of Calvinism with its bleak doctrine of predestination andofa stern rather than a loving Deity.

One of the most notable goddesses was the Sumerian love deity Inanna, who was later equated with the Akkadian Ishtar.

The doctrine that we are presided over by a loving deity has become so rounded and elastic that no earthly evil or natural disaster, it seems, can come into collision with it.

Other interpretations say that Abraham was testing God, and since Abraham had absolute faith in a just and loving deity he knew he would never be asked to bring the knife down.