It depends on what you mean by "good." Some gods are connected to certain specific moral virtues -- for example, Mars exemplifies and expects courage, Jupiter does the same for justice, Juno for fidelity, and so on. Other gods are not moral in nature -- Pan is a very powerful god but I don't recommend invoking him for moral advice! You're right to say that "prolonged contact with them [the gods] would nudge us in the direction of becoming better versions of ourselves" -- but this isn't true of any one god or goddess. It's true of all of them together.
The gods are primal forces. They're not blind or stupid, but they're too strong for human beings to cope with in an unmediated fashion -- thus the story of Jupiter and Semele, for example. The point of religious practice is as much to mediate and step down the overwhelming power of the gods as it is to come into contact with them in the first place.
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Date: 2023-03-14 02:51 am (UTC)The gods are primal forces. They're not blind or stupid, but they're too strong for human beings to cope with in an unmediated fashion -- thus the story of Jupiter and Semele, for example. The point of religious practice is as much to mediate and step down the overwhelming power of the gods as it is to come into contact with them in the first place.