Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

...You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite. I listen to you, and I think, his god is too small! One paltry planet, a few thousand years — hardly worth the attention of a minor deity, much less the Creator of the universe.

... The power which the common people ascribe to God is not only a human power (which shows that they look upon God as a man, or as being like a man), but that it also involves weakness.

People like him think that they are god's gift to the world. What's worse, they are.

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.” –ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, 1973

People make me a superstar and treat me that way. But I am not a superstar. I just regard myself as an ordinary God-fearing person.

If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Our culture has confined our imaginations with an uninspiring vision of God. He's been reduced to a manageable deity of consumable proportions.

The reduction of even sacred things into commodities explains why we exhibit so little reverence for God. In a consumer worldview he has no intrinsic value apart from his usefulness to us.

I sometimes think God is a s--t — and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s--t.

People may love a God of their own imaginations, when they are far from loving such a God as reigns in heaven.

We are wont foolishly to think that the creed which a man professes is more significant than the fact he is.

I have often imagined that people who carry on about how God “thinks” human beings should behave must appear to be complete fools to the divine.