Fair enough. Except that it may not be God I'm condemning. It's not necessarily God I have a beef with. It's the God I've come to know in the United States of America in the years 1973 - 2000. The God of the American Christian is a bleeding lunatic. Apparently, He cares more about the gender of the person you're sleeping with than poverty-stricken children in Appalachia. Our Father apparently prefers to be upset that women are having abortions than He does that the society in which they live has created a situation in which motherhood is, for so many, a bad enough idea to have an abortion. The Devil's in the pulpit and it seems to be alright with Him. Have you heard what's coming off some of these preachers' tongues?
Everywhere these Churches have gone, they have succeeded at the cost of the prior cultures. Of course the Inquisitions aren't God's fault, except that He didn't stop it. I offer, from the band Boiled in Lead, God is good, God is great, God's a big invertebrate. God made the river change it's route, but He won't pull the micro-organism out.
The God of the Americans, for 10 years, punished everyone for the "sins" of homosexuals. Well, if we believe Ronald Reagan and a good many hyperconservative prechers of the 1980's.
I don't have a problem with God. I just have a problem believing that God is what the majority of my neighbors seem to invoke. Maybe the God they know in their hearts is different, but what courage have they if they can't make Him manifest in their duty and decision?
In fact, I'm willing to assert I treat God better than most: I don't try to fit God into a shoebox. In fact, I find the word "God" limiting.
There is only what is. It has less ego appeal than the Biblical version.
thanx,
Tiassa
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.--Denis Diderot