Genius. Our friend Kady turned me on to your post because somehow you're not on my reading filter (fixed!). I was trying to say as much as you did in your disclaimers, and then I started thinking in the general direction of believers-make-the-stronger-religion, but you got there first and did it better. Thanks!

My fannish response, leaving the view of the show writing out of it, is that these were not the gods they said they were. There were too many wrong things that would have been so simple to get right, especially since the writers were thinking deeply enough to include gods from lesser known religions. I want to see the real gods come out and pick up where Kali and Gabriel left off.