cconroy: bstorer: And what does one use to type said keyboard shortcuts? That's right: fingers. Why, I'm risking future disability just to educate you people right now. The least you could do is worship me like a God.
A God who can't heal his own gnarled fingers? You're going to have to do better than that.
This is what's happens when you believe in a single god. Your single, monolithic diety may have the power to heal fingers and any other power you imagine, but what happens when a change request comes in? The original Architect of your god is probably long gone and his design long forgotten. If you wanted to add the power to make mushrooms talk, you'd probably find yourself wading through hundreds of sections designed to heal fingers, or make the sky rain fire, or trick humans into thinking the planet is millions of years old.
If you'd just switch to a distributed diety system, none of this would happen. Each diety in my pantheon is a modular unit that can be added or removed at runtime. If, for some crazy reason, you decided that you no longer needed a god of excessive complaining about minor transgressions, I could be returned to mortality with the click of a single button. Take that same example: in order to add a god of talking mushrooms, you'd just have to extend the base diety class (which contains the necessary code for prayers, sacrifices, and other message handling) and plug it in. Simple, agile, effective.
So, yes, I can't heal fingers because it's not my job (It's Carl's domain, and he and I aren't talking this eon). Other than my ability to complain loudly and endlessly over trivial matters, I'm much like you (only cooler and better endowed). You can laugh at me if you want, but ask yourself, what if you needed mushrooms to talk at a sales conference call next Tuesday? Which system would seem crazy then?
Oh, also I can throw lightning bolts.