Seattle.  (Rain dances don't work so well either.  I tried them a number of times when I was a kid. Got dust storms.)  What does that tell you? Is the rain god helpless, or mean, or non-existent? Ok, my apologies. That forced choice sounds a little too much like the tired old trilemma that some Christians use to defend Jesus: was he an a. lunatic, b. liar, or c. Lord? It's possible that Jesus was a legend or a reformist rabbi; and it's possible that the god of rain is simply geographically challenged, or ignorant rather than mean, or that he exists on alternate Thursdays, even though cognitive scientist Pascal Boyer says my brain structure won't let me believe this. 5. Babies without brains. Some people think that believers without hearts -- like, say Catholic bishops who cover up for pedophile priests -- are reason to doubt that there is a god. But I think there's some wiggle room in terms of who's at fault in those heartless pedophilia cases.  On the other hand -- anencephalic babies that are born with literally no brains --   babies that are physically incapable of becoming persons -- no wiggle whatsoever. 6. Bad marketing. If you were God, would you let Pat Robertson, Fred Phelps, or Anjem Choudary speak for you.  Would God really be less marketing savvy than Coca Cola? 7. Endometriosis. According to the Bible, God retooled women's reproductive tracts after Eve ate the apple.  The idea was that we would want