"But an outside referee is forced to allow Mike the same dispensation granted all other gods.  There are rules for this game: one god alone splits into at least two parts - male and female - and breeds.  Not just Jehovah - they all do it.  Look it up.  Contrariwise, a group of gods will breed like rabbits, every time, and with as little regard for human formalities.  Once Mike entered the godding business, those orgies of his group were as logically certain as Sunday follows Saturday.  So quit using the standards of Podunk and judge them only by Olympian morals - I think you will then find that they are showing unusual restraint.  Furthermore, Ben, this 'growing-closer' by sexual union, this unity-into-pluralty and plurality-back-into-unity, cannot tolerate monogamy inside the god group.  Any pairing that excluded the others would be immoral, obscene, under the postulated creed.  And if such mutual, shared-by-all sexual congress is essential to their creed, as I grok it has to be, then why do you expect this holy union to be hidden behind a door?  Your insistence that they should hide it would have turned a holy rite - which it was - into something obscene - which it was not. You just plain did not understand what you were looking at."