God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.
I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.