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QUOTE: TrisakAminawn
The false assumption you're progressing from, Wolven-kun, is that 'God' is a significant presence in Edward's mind, because it is in yours. And it's not. Amestris, (Eastern lunatic-fringe types like Ishbal and Lior aside) is an extremely secular nation, so he doesn't assume God should or could have saved them. Scar is the most religious character in the story, being a former priest and a religion-motivated serial killer and all that, and even he doesn't talk God all the time. God's main jobs in the first part of Fullmetal Alchemist are to enable discussion of hubris and to , and then later it gets murkier but he never turns up in a very good light. Scar-before-he-was-Scar thinks of God largely as a set of rules rather than a person, you'll note, but a benevolent set of rules, which is at the same time sort of a person. Ishbal reads as the Jewish edition of Jehovah, I think.
QUOTE: TrisakAminawn

First, kudos to you and Gawain both; these are very thoughtful posts with much more than a small amount of thought put into there responses.

I must say, you pegged me correctly on a false assumption, but not so much in the way you first surmised. I will never assume God to be a reality in someone else's mind, even though he is indeed very real to me and in my own mind.

However, the false assumption I was making (and I would have never realized it but for your very astute and insightful post) was that because Edward was antagonistic towards religion in Liore, that he must inevitable have blamed God for what happened to his mother and Al's body.

I now see that as wrong, for it appears, as I believe you mentioned as well, that God is simply a non-issue for Edward. Something that really means nothing to him at all, and perhaps even more so because in Edward's world virtually anything attributed to God can be done by man... save for raising the dead... which might be why Edward leaves the whole religion thing alone as it is.