The Christianity of today - despicable ease - holds God to have abandoned one if things do not go according one's will. It would never occur to such fools that it is impossible for God to abandon a part of Himself. If you politely suggest to them that perhaps they had instead abandoned God, they would accuse you of the most treacherous blasphemy.
"We have both love and happiness" they smirk unto me "and the God who is Love brings all happiness. Thus do we relate to our Father." Do they really think the Devil is such a fool he is unable to make a person happy! Oh well, as in the movies, I suppose the good guy has to win.
"Jesus said 'Ask and you shall receive,' therefore we ask" they explain. But I tell you, there must always be giving before there can be taking. How conveniently they ignore the struggles of Jesus's life! They concentrate only on his birth and death, Christmas and Easter, condemning his life to oblivion.