I have to admit that I admire the way you describe the God of the Old Testament! It was a rereading of the OT in my late 40's that created a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. My conscience was troubled, and I began to hear a 'still small voice' of reason, saying "this can't be true about God." And in defense of the God I had thought existed, I denied all the lies, misattributions and atrocities that the Bible said he condoned, ordered or committed.

But it becomes very difficult to defend a conspirator in absentia, especially without contravening evidence. Eventually I came to the realization that this God I’d defended was no better—no more intelligent, no more moral, no more literate, no more educated, no more refined—in other words, no more advanced than the people who wrote about him. Of what use then, is such a god?

@pnfullifidian Exactly. On the other hand, we are our OWN gods; physics indicates that we are participating in creating our own universes/reality.

“Consciousness is fundamental, and matter is derived from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

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“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction.

Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.” – R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University , “The Mental Universe” ; Nature