(December 5, 2023 at 7:42 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: Do you think God is more like an authoritarian figure, and absolute monarchy, and a dictatorship; if in a subtle way?
People have pictured God in a lot of different ways.
The God that Hitchens describes, and that people tend to argue against on this forum, is certainly a tyrant. As far as I can tell, this view of God comes from a literal reading of the Old Testament and some fire-and-brimstone type preachers.
The God of Plato, of Aristotle, of Augustine, of Dante, and many etc., is not at all a tyrant or authority figure.
