Can God be loved even as a fictional character?

[Reforged]

I will answer your question with a question; Do you love Walter White?

[Minimalist]

So can you reference the scripture where he invents Leukemia?

I form the light, and tcreate darkness:
I make peace, and ucreate evil:
I the Lord do all these things.

Is 45:7

Fucker even brags about it!

[vorlon13]

God of the bible ?

Hell no.

Other fictional characters ?  Well;

I've had very intense reactions to fictional characters, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist spring to mind. But, in Ennis's case, he vividly reminded me of someone I know.  And Jack, surprisingly, I went into the movie figuring that character would remind me of an old boyfriend.  My surprise was intense when I realized Jack was portraying me.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Sal in On the Road was a pretty gone guy.

[Homeless Nutter]

Abrahamic God is a terrible fictional character. Despite displaying a range of human-like emotions, he's completely unrelatable, because he has every super-power imaginable and is therefore never in any peril, nor is he able to learn anything, or change, on the account of his omniscience. His story arc is essentially that of a spoiled, psychopathic child, bored out of its mind. For eternity.

Christians realized this, which is why they created the Jesus character. However he's only better than God, in terms of relatability, in that he can be tortured...

[Edwardo Piet]

The writer of the novel is far too inconsistent and contradictory for me to appreciate any of the characters therein.

0.5/5 stars... couldn't get past page 3.

[robvalue]

If you like him, and it makes you happy to have positive feelings about him while acknowledging he's actually fictional, then I see no harm in that.

I see no requirement for you to justify your feelings about a fictional character to anyone else.

Since he is fictional, you're right, people are free to interpret the character to be whatever they want. There is nothing real to judge it against. By the same token, you can't tell us that our interpretation is "wrong", though.

I find the character to be horrific, but I've never had any kind of "relationship" with it for me to feel any differently. If I'd spent a long time thinking he was real and feeling that the text perhaps doesn't quite portray what he is really like, or I loved him regardless, then my opinion would probably be different.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Abrahamic God is a terrible fictional character. Despite displaying a range of human-like emotions, he's completely unrelatable, because he has every super-power imaginable and is therefore never in any peril, nor is he able to learn anything, or change, on the account of his omniscience. His story arc is essentially that of a spoiled, psychopathic child, bored out of its mind. For eternity.

Christians realized this, which is why they created the Jesus character. However he's only better than God, in terms of relatability, in that he can be tortured...

Since only a handful of people tortured Jesus why is he pissed at people who didn't torture him?

[ignoramus]

I believe the answer lies in the next book which has never been released.
"God strikes back"

[Homeless Nutter]

Since only a handful of people tortured Jesus why is he pissed at people who didn't torture him?

For the same reason why a child, when stung by a couple of ants proceeds to destroy the entire anthill.