In a silent church, a man is praying.

– “God, please help me to overcome this storm.”

– “You look extremely miserable, my son.”

– “Who? Who is talking to me?” the man exclaims.

– “It is me, your God.”

A black man in a black suit with black glasses slowly appears sitting beside him.

– “Am I dreaming?” the man turns his head and asks.

– “No, my son, it is real.”

– “But you do not look like a God?” the man wonders about God’s appearance. “A God must wear a costume like that,” the man points to a statue hung on the ceiling of the church.

– “I exist with anyone who believes in me, my son.” the God explains. “This world changed so fast, and I also must follow it too.”

– “But I just think my God is a Jew, at least he is not…black.”

– “And he absolutely is not white as you know, my son,” God chuckles. “I am just the incarnation of your faith.”

– “Amazing!” the man is surprised. “No one I know has ever seen a real God before.”

– “Just because their faith is not as strong as you at now.”

– “You are right! It is the first time I go to the church for praying.”

– “In the past, there were so many people believing in me,” the God sighs. “Since they were born with their ridiculous theories, people increasingly deny my existence.”

– “Who are they?”

– “Darwin, Newton, Marx, and the others,” the God blames. “Thanks to congregations and churches, their faith keeps me existing.”

– “But scientists help people live better with…the development of science.”

– “That development just develops people’s greed, and then there are only sorrows.”

– “It looks like the story of the forbidden fruit and the tree of knowledge.”

– “Yeah, you got it,” the God applauses. “The knowledge of science keeps people away from me, then all they have are just pains.”

– “You may be right, God!” the man sorrows. “I am in pain. My career has been stuck while my girlfriend left me.”

– “Sorry, my son! my magic is not strong enough to change someone’s mind or your own career.”

– “But you are a powerful God.”

– “Exactly, I used to be,” says God. “In today’s modern life, the decrease of faith weakens my power.”

– “In the past, you can change the whole life of anyone?”

– “What do you mean the whole life?”

– “I mean whatever people can pray to you…to have a wonderful life.”

– “In the past, people’s prayers are so simple,” God explains. “If they ask for food, I bring food to them; if they are thirsty, I help them find water sources.”

– “Is that what you can do?”

– “If natural disasters appear on the earth, I will protect people from them.”

– “But the onward march of science can do it nowadays.”

– “I can also save people from the epidemic.”

– “My God, science today can help people live longer and be healthy.”

– “And it also creates human’s lust.”

– “Whatever, I already had good food, a small house, and I am very healthy,” the man says. “But now I just wish for a better job, and my girlfriend can come back to me.”

– “It turns out that you are not as miserable as I thought.”

– “I am still miserable. My life is still depressed.”

– “Haha,” the God cackles. “Your life is better than millions of people in this world, my son.”

As soon as God’s words finish, God slowly disappears like he never existed.

– “Wait, God,” the man screams.

“Beep beep,” the alarm clock rings. The man wakes up in his cozy room. The clock strikes at 7 am. It is raining. Outside his house, under the torrential rain, workers are rushing home after a night shift, and a homeless guy is embracing his dog to keep the dog dry from the leaking roof.