Can God be loved even as a fictional character?

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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.