The questions theism asks are those of the hormonal teenager: "Who am I? Why am I here? What's the meaning of life?Why do my parents want me to do chores and keep my room tidy?"
In terms of its aims, theism has achieved none of them and thus far, applied science and engineering have made greater progress in all of them. In the matter of death, what is the problem people have with it? A natural end to a natural process, no more avoidable or to be feared than birth, puberty and ageing. An end to pain, suffering and irritation. Finally, peace and quiet!. If any shining being hoicks me out of that peace and tells me there's more to go through, I'm going to be really annoyed!
My younger granddaughter is a Type One diabetic. Theism offers her nothing but prayer and the advice that this is either a test of faith or the workings of karma. Medicine offers her insulin, a pump to dispense it, scanners to check her blood levels. apps that allow her to calculate her carbs and the means to predict and treat highs and lows. Even then, her life expectancy is five to ten years less than other kids her age. Praying won't change that.
Now I'm not one of those people who refuses to believe in God or the supernatural because only a demented psychopath would force a child to go through chronic illness and suffering when they could prevent it with a whim. I'm just a person who thinks that if God exists, they may have other work, plans or purposes than fussing over humans and playing cruel tricks on them.
Now we can be like Dr Benajmin Cain and accept the absurdity of our existence in the face of cosmic indifference. We then struggle heroically to change the Universe to make it make sense. Something Dr Cain seems to think our transhuman or post-human descendants may achieve. Or perhaps not.
Or we can take the theist route, which is to assume it must all make sense to somebody and that the somebody is God. Unfortunately, Gods' reluctance to show their face, make a definitive statement of policy, or actually do anything remotely useful or helpful for the Man on the Clapham Omnibus, renders that pie in the sky as well.
So we need to grasp the nettle and conclude that either God does not exist, or if they do, they have no interest in or concern for us. So it behoves us to concentrate on things that are actually of real help and value to us.
More importantly, it frees us form the need to keep looking over our shoulders and wondering if the Big Enchilada approves or not!
Gods purposes and plans are ineffable. Which I take to mean that God doesn't give an eff, so why should we?
