Partial causation and the efficacy of the mental

If the idea of a Manager of the Universe is to be powerful, then it is going to have to be efficacious through its effects on the minds of those who accept the existence of such a manager. In other words, any commitment to the Manager of the Universe being a powerful intentional object (and nothing "more" than an intentional object) is necessarily going to involve a commitment to mental causation and the mental having influence on physical events. Or, if it is not going to do this, then it will be incumbent upon one to say how beliefs and desires about the will of the Manager and about pleasing the Manager can make a difference in human action and not do so in virtue of their mental content.

In other words, the idea of the Manager exists and those whose belief in pleasing or otherwise interacting with the Manager makes a difference to what they do, require an accounting. Clearly the content seems to play a causal role and thus the content is at least a partial cause.