No one is preventing you from the idol worship of your golden plates or books of tales and fables. It's only when you extremists decide that your fears and superstitions need to be imposed in the public schools or associated with government that other need to step in and correct you.Then don't and leave others to deal with same stuff in their own way.That does not prove that God is not real. My grandma is currently dying of cancer yet I do not expect YHWH to swoop down from the Heavens and save her from stage four lung cancer. Nor do I feel YHWH should feel obligated do so.
The suffering and pain and death of our loved ones are never a happy thing to experience, but that's Life. Get over it.
No, they aren't.
But praying to a magic sky man is a useless activity I refuse to engage in or treat seriously.