I could live with that explanation.
However, I still see it as laughable that anyone would worship that "descriptor" or allow others to use it as a means of controlling people through some primitive "fear of the unknown".
That's all religion (belief in a god) is. The modern manifestation of a primitive fear of the unknown and an attempt to control that fear or escape the unknown. The churches instil and reinforce this, so that they may prey on peoples insecurities in order to control them and make money.
All I can say to believers is,... "You can be completely assured that there's no way that you'll be getting out of this world alive, and you certainly will not be coming back for a second lick of the lolly"
I guess that's the way I was trying to explain my personal beliefs about God. He/she is just more eloquent in brevity than I.
Church is a farce, and you and I will never disagree on that, Seno. I detest--DETEST--all forms of organized religion - the vileness, the violence, the very judgmental bitterness and spite they bring into this world in their contemptuous proffering all that is "right and just" sickens me.
More wars have been started in the name of "God" than for any other reason. I do not worship that type of God.
I worship what is pure, what is holy, what is love and what is lovely. A beautiful spring day is God. The love of a fine woman even in our most undeserving moments is God. The man that takes the orphan under his wing and loves him is God.
Thinking of "God" as a man in the sky is just too limiting for my concept of all the goodness that is out there because of God. He's action, not words. He's dynamic.
If the, as you prefer to call it, "bobble" can teach us anything about God, it is only that it has nothing to teach us about God. If you want to know God, look inside yourself, not anywhere outside or encompassed inside tomes.
You can't take something you don't understand and try and understand it by putting it into a box.
If you're anything like me, though, you'll accept responsibility easily enough -- if things go well.
But do you accept the consequences -- or do you blame God? -- when the result of your actions has failed to meet with your expectations?
That is my own biggest failing.
Nobody ever said that being a Christian was going to be easy...
I accept responsibility when things go well and when they do not go well, despite my most sincere selflessness to offer a little goodness to this crappy planet and its crappy peoples.
My contention is thus: in order to worship a deity, one cannot live a dichotomy by offering praise for all the good things and refuse to hold that deity accountable for all the bad things. That is narrow minded, biased, hypocritical, and offensive.
As a father, I love my children. Thus, I allow them to make their own mistakes, learn their own consequences, and suffer through their poor decisions. I also praise them for doing what they know is right even when it is oh, so difficult to do so.
But if my kid ran out in front of a truck, I wouldn't stand by and do nothing, touting, "Well, bad things happen in this world."
You don't praise a father who loves his children enough to allow them to grow but also allows that growth to include getting killed by a truck if it could be prevented.
That is the church's version of God: pure love, worthy of all praise. But blameless when he does NOTHING to prevent bad things happening to innocents when he could.
That never has been and never will be my God.