How pitiful is it that so often when I engage in discussion on the topic of God, either with people with questions or those in opposition, I find myself cornered into a defense of the doctrine of the vending machine in the sky. In all seriousness, an article put out through CNN, said "atheists and agnostics reported more anger at God during their lifetimes than believers" Interesting, that their anger comes from unresolved issues with the Big man... Their "anger [is] focused on a hypothetical image - that is, what they imagined God might be like"
Psychologists can tell you that our ideas about God are fashioned largely as a reflection of how we see other people, and our idea of God's attitude toward us is a reflection of our world view. The problem with this is that its entirely based on "our idea". Now I don't mean to pick on Atheists and Agnostics, but I want to highlight that most of us, formulate an image of God based on who we are... It's only honesty that can bring an Agnostic to say he doesn't know, and the Atheist to say "if that's a god, he can't exist." We all have an idea of God that is too puny, especially most Christians. The message of "just believe" leads people to create their own tiny god who cares about them and has positive intentions toward them; or not
I've often thought that the Hebrew prohibition against saying the name of YHWH was intended to keep the people from discussing God, his nature, and trying to describe him in human terms, to draw a picture of god in our image, to literally Profane His name...
Psychologists can tell you that our ideas about God are fashioned largely as a reflection of how we see other people, and our idea of God's attitude toward us is a reflection of our world view. The problem with this is that its entirely based on "our idea". Now I don't mean to pick on Atheists and Agnostics, but I want to highlight that most of us, formulate an image of God based on who we are... It's only honesty that can bring an Agnostic to say he doesn't know, and the Atheist to say "if that's a god, he can't exist." We all have an idea of God that is too puny, especially most Christians. The message of "just believe" leads people to create their own tiny god who cares about them and has positive intentions toward them; or not
I've often thought that the Hebrew prohibition against saying the name of YHWH was intended to keep the people from discussing God, his nature, and trying to describe him in human terms, to draw a picture of god in our image, to literally Profane His name...
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