"You know, now that I think about it, I'm sure on reflection that somewhere in dath ilan there is a city full of people who are just excitedly analyzing all the markets and figuring out all the secret government projects and slapping hands with each other as they figure them out, because the people there want to hear about it, and their access to the markets and so on have some kind of monitored trading condition that prevents info there from leaking out to the rest of Civilization, which doesn't want to hear about it."
"But, like, if they're calling down the gods on the rest of us, then yes, that is a condition under which I'd agree with a secret government project to go in and preemptively cryopreserve them all and hide that fact from the rest of Civilization. In fact, I think that's a much more important capacity for a society to have, now that I've seen a society where gods are running loose. Before I would've said that was an unreasonably-improbable-hypothetical."
"Civilization is doing fine without gods."