Can God be loved even as a fictional character?

[Jenny A]

Which Christian God?  In Genesis there's the disembodied almighty, and the god with peers in the form of angels who tends to walk around talking with people.  One is not really anything you could identify with and the other a kind of Frankenstein who's afraid of what he created in his own image from the get go.  He floods the earth in a rage, and destroys a tower out of fear.  He chooses a single people out of all humanity for reasons unstated.  He appears to need and like animal sacrifice. He's often arbitrary in his punishments, big on ceremony, genocide, and young boys who aren't going to inherit without divine intervention.  His gifts to his favorites are victory, and political power. In the later part of the Old Testament, he spends half his time punishing the rich for being rich and the other half punishing the poor for not following the rich.  But mostly he remains jealous of his own worship.

In the New Testament he's more disembodied in comparison to his rather fleshy son/messenger.  And there's the even more (if possible disembodied holy spirit.  With the exception of Jesus' baptism it must speak through angels (and Jesus of course).  And then, he gets into thought crimes.  

There are two rather different Jesus' too.  The one in the synoptic gospels who is not god, but "the son of man." And the one in John who knows he's really god.  Both have a martyr complex and value faith over reason. Though the one in John preforms miracles to make people believe and the one in the synoptics preforms miracles as a kind of prize for those who already believe.  In either case he's self righteous, a little whiny, and occasionally petulant.  In either case he's a kind of pacifist, communistic moral philosopher who would like to turn the world upside-down.  But it's not a practical philosophy which is why practically no one follows it.

None of them are loveable.