God is the ultimate excuse. The excuse not to think or act.

Whose job is it to manage the world's population?

Whose job is it to stop cripples and idiots being a burden on us?

Whose job is it to ensure that the evil people beyond the reach of the law
are punished?

Whoever is currently responsible deserves to lose their job.

Most Christians would argue that all those jobs belong to God. Talking
about taking such responsibility ourselves is blasphemy.

God is the ultimate excuse, the excuse not to take responsibility. If
things are beyond our power to change then this dereliction of our duty is
not something to be concerned about. But now we live in a world on the
brink of a huge series of interlinked man-made catastrophes. The air, soil
and water is poisoned by our activities. We are taxing an obscene
proportion of the organic output of the planet to sustain just our own
species. We are leaving a denuded and spoilt world for our children to
inherit.

In the past leaving things to God was an option. Naturally leaving things
to God and deciding simply not to worry about them amounts to the same
thing. Nothing happens, at least nothing significant changes. The pattern
of events rolls on as before. Generals pray to God for victory but God is
on the side of the big battalions, or those with the best tanks. God does
nothing and still gets the credit for everything good and the blame for
nothing.

God will provide. Oh really? So all those Jews who starved to death in
Belsen have only themselves to blame, lack of faith killed them
apparently, I had always thought that it was lack of food.

Nobody is listening to your prayers except yourself. If you imagine that
God is listening then you may as well say that nobody at all is listening,
because you are now ignoring yourself. Praying for help with your problems
is shirking responsibility. You repeat your problems into the empty air
and your guilt and duty vanishes.

There is no higher authority.