What is God like? A punishing judge? A doting grandfather? A deadbeat dad? A vengeful warrior? \'Believers\' and atheists alike typically carry and finally reject the toxic images of God in their own hearts and minds.
How do such \'good cop/bad cop\' distortions of the divine arise and come to dominate churches and cultures? Whether our notions of \'god\' are personal pro.
Even the Christian Gospel has repeatedly lapsed into a vision of God where the wrathful King must be appeased by his victim Son.
What is God like? A punishing judge? A doting grandfather? A deadbeat dad? A vengeful warrior? \'Believers\' and atheists alike typically carry and finally reject the toxic images of God in their own hearts and minds