"Abadar will appreciate Civilization if it exists, I think. Having Him defend it from other gods is a whole different story, especially when it doesn't already exist and Abadar is very confused about a lot of the things that make up a stable Civilization from a mortal stand point. Sarenrae... I have concerns about the thing where She smote a city, and I am not very reassured by the part where She's supposed to have realized afterwards that this was a bad idea, it sounds more like mortals trying to paper over divine unpleasantness than how I imagine ancient gods working. It's not clear to me that dath ilan Civilization wouldn't... I mean, not actually arrest Sarenrae, She's done some good work for mortals, but tell Her that She needed to clean up Her act a bit."
"My model isn't that there's nobody out there for Civilization to cut a deal with, I think They're not powerful enough, and that the ancient gods opposed to Them will squash Civilization before Civilization gets powerful enough to participate in ancient-god-deals."