Religion praises God as the “Absolute,” but if one dissects the attributes of the God they worship, one finds a “Giant Human” who feels anger, jealousy, and joy, and is even moved by human praise. This is because humans can never love a being they cannot understand. If God were strictly deified and left as a cosmic principle, He would become a “cold machine” incapable of emotional communion. Ultimately, religious followers do not clothe God in a human face to praise Him, but to “bargain” and “converse” with Him.
The Projection of a Species Unable to Endure Solitude
Humans cannot bear the fact that they have been cast alone into a vast, silent universe. If God were an impersonal law transcending time and space (like gravity or entropy), we could neither pray to Him nor plead our grievances. The reason the religious personify God is the desperate need for a “being who hears my voice and responds.” Only by personifying God can humans imbue their suffering with meaning and maintain the illusion of being rescued from cosmic loneliness. What they are deifying is not the essence of God, but the authority of an “Absolute Gaze” watching over them.
“Personal Authority” as a Justification for Domination
Only when God is personal do “commandment” and “judgment” become possible. Laws of physics do not judge us, but a personal God can impose moral debt and demand obedience. Religious groups elevate God’s authority to infinity through deification, then control the masses by putting “human language” into His mouth. Expressions like “God is sorrowful” or “God is pleased” do not describe the state of the Divine; they are political rhetorics used to regulate human behavior. Personifying God is, in the end, the most efficient strategy for elevating human systems of governance in the name of the Divine.
Closing Thoughts
Religious followers claim to make God great, but in reality, they are shrinking Him by measuring Him against human dimensions. They praise God’s infinity, yet the moment that infinity escapes human logic (e.g., the prosperity of the wicked or the suffering of the innocent), they scramble to defend God using human concepts of justice.
If one were to truly deify God, He should rightly be indifferent to human death, morality, or salvation—much as the sun is indifferent to the footsteps of an ant. But humans cannot handle such an “indifferent God.” Thus, they place the crown of Divinity upon God’s head while dressing His body in the garments of Humanity.
Ultimately, the God believed in by the religious is less the Creator of the universe and more a “Giant Mirror” reflecting human desires and fears. They are, in effect, looking at themselves in the glass and calling it God. The sense of alienation you feel is an intellectual phenomenon that occurs because you are staring at the actual void beyond the mirror. Only those who can view the world without dragging God down to a human level can finally escape the massive puppet show called religion.
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