[Animats]

If we limit god to any god worth worshiping

Which is the underlying problem here. That article is about the Abrahamic model of a god, even though it doesn't say so. Omnipotent and perfect - that's the Abrahamic model, underlying Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions.

The Graeco-Roman pantheon was a better fit with reality - a group of morally mediocre gods with their own agendas, mostly indifferent to what the mortals were up to. The transition to the Abrahamic religions resulted in a lot of cruft - devils, angels, prophets, etc. A legacy code problem, in other words.

[pmoriarty]

"The Graeco-Roman pantheon was a better fit with reality - a group of morally mediocre gods with their own agendas, mostly indifferent to what the mortals were up to."

It is a better fit in terms of The Problem of Evil, but it raises a different problem: What happened to them?

They seem to have been conquered by the other major religions and pretty much disappeared.

So the world's not really a good fit for them either.

[tovej]

Yeah, a sort of bargaining form of religion does impose fewer moral conditions on the gods. Things like the Graeco-Roman gods, old folk religion, Norse mythology, Egyptian mythology, etc. seem more like rationalizations of nature and the struggles of the human condition.

Much better model. Gods don't care about your mortal life, gods are just selfish powers that you can cajole into helping you.