From The Reading

It is natural that human beings should perceive God in terms of their earthly fathers. For most people, "God" is simply "father" written large. The only reference they have for "father" is human fathers, so they come to expect of God a universal version of what they have already known.

I've been reading Stephen Mansfield's Lincoln's Battle With God specifically because it is an examination of how a person believes one thing passionately at one point, and over the course of a lifetime filled wi...