Church of the God Who Makes No Difference

The Church of the God Who Makes No Difference is a fictitious religion from the 1994 Greg Egan science fiction novel Permutation City.
The Church is depicted in the novel as a group who find the trappings of religion comforting, but acknowledge that any deity that may exist makes no attempt to make itself known to humans and does not interfere in the workings of the universe. One of the book’s two main characters, Maria Deluca, has an ailing mother who has joined the church and because of this the church has started to send Maria requests for donations and has attempted to proselytize to her about the benifits of joining.
The novel itself deals with themes of multiversal realities and what constitutes being human. Though a very minor part, the Church of the God Who Makes No Difference is used as an allegory for people who refuse to accept the world as it is presented, but instead choose to bury themselves in patently false beliefs that do not hold up to reason or logic.
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