Deus ex machina in Latin is "God from a machine." Greek playwrights would end their dramas with a God, lowered to the stage by a mechanical device, resolving the dilemmas of human characters with divine intervention. The phrase now means to escape complex situations. People will pray to win the lottery––fail to buy a ticket––hoping God will take care of the logistics. Deus ex machina tells us that if an idea can be used to 'explain' anything, it's a bad explanation.
It's true that the main function of language is not to express or describe, but to influence. If code can script computers, words script people. Religious text is called scripture for a reason. Yet I do not unblushingly publish such cringe content, if I was unaware that most of my readers were equally guilty with myself, and that their stories would look no better in print.
