I know what a garage would behave like if it contained a benevolent God
Do you, though? What if that God was vastly more intelligent than us; would you understand all of His reasons and agree with all of His policy decisions? Is there not a risk that you would conclude, on balance, “There should be no ‘banned products shops’”, while a more knowledgeable entity might decide that they are worth keeping open?
If God is more intelligent than me and I don’t understand his reasons, that proves too much. It could just as well be that God is evil, and the things that he does that seem good just seem good to me because they are evil on a level that I can’t understand.
Do you, though? What if that God was vastly more intelligent than us; would you understand all of His reasons and agree with all of His policy decisions? Is there not a risk that you would conclude, on balance, “There should be no ‘banned products shops’”, while a more knowledgeable entity might decide that they are worth keeping open?
If God is more intelligent than me and I don’t understand his reasons, that proves too much. It could just as well be that God is evil, and the things that he does that seem good just seem good to me because they are evil on a level that I can’t understand.