I mean, fair enough. That’s really the point of these articles — that unless you engage and really think, the G-d you worship really *is* like the G-d the atheist doesn’t believe in, and that’s a problem!

Just as I am engaging with “bad” atheist “arguments,” I would never begrudge an atheist to engage with silly things theists say; indeed I am familiar with those things and they annoy me.

(There is also the point to be made, by the way, that I don’t necessarily agree that all there is to know about G-d is rational per se. But I do believe that the rational arguments for His existence at least are valid. Some of the more childish or silly things that people say about G-d are actually *true*, in some ways and from other perspectives, but for someone who actually thinks they have to do a lot of acrobatics to see it that way. =D The idea that G-d has a body, for example, is antithetical to everything I’ve written here, but people think it is so because of what it says in the Bible. There are ways of reconciling the two, obviously, but I’m not sure how much patience an atheist would have for it.)

But for the work-a-day man of G*d who fills their time with work and family. Who teach their children about G*d because that’s what everyone agrees is good and proper.

How different are G*d and the tooth fairy for them?

Totally agree.

No, but it’s on my list.