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The question whether god may understand or be bound by moral standards is irrelevant though. Apparently he doesn't act on it. Either he doesn't care enough to do or he can't.
Of course one can imagine god in a way that's compatible with our world - for example an evil god, a god that doesn't care about humans, a god that has no relationship with the world, or a god that's incapable of interference with it. Epicurus doesn't say god doesn't exist, merely the (formerly prevalent) idea of an all loving, all knowing, omnipotent creator god. That one is apparently impossible and therefore most likely doesn't exist.
And going one step further we can say: Well okay, maybe god doesn't exist, but apparently not in a way that's relevant to this world. At least not beyond the idea itself. There is no tangible influence of god in this life - he doesn't interfer (for whatever reason). And since the formerly prevalent idea of god is obviously wrong it's hard to say if humans were ever justified in thinking we know something about god at all. (Would be a feat anyway, giving the fact that god apparently doesn't interfer with our reality.) This however leaves very little room to justify or explain the need for religion.
When I was a believer this was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. I understood that we know nothing of god, cannot know anything of god, and cannot claim to say he does exist - and that religion therefore made no sense. Back then I called myself an agnostic, taking into account the possibility that, as unlikely as it might me, god could yet exist in some form. Today I don't even believe that. The term "god" stems from a tradition of groundless and increasingly refuted attributions, and there's just as much reason to assume the existence of such a concept as every other work of fiction out there. If you'd experience the world without the predenomination of religion you wouldn't arrive at anything close to their idea of a god in the first place. This was my conclusion from the Epicurean paradox.
So, n=2, now we have a tie.
(Exercise like this might feel futile to you - I find them immensely interesting.)