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I don't know if there are an abundance of people who worship a god who they believe doesn't love them, or have the general characteristics that the three monotheistic religions attribute to god, if there are non mainstream religions that have a god who they know is supposed to hate humans....I doubt they're really popular.

I believe it is difficult for us in a world (Western) where life is relatively safe perhaps to understand how anyone can worships a malevalent god, or at least a god or gods that are completely arbitary in what they do. But I have an idea that if your life is depending on stuff that you have No influence over whatsoever, you try to appease or stay of the right side of these powers, be they god or gods, spirits, forces of nature, overlords or whatever. Basically because there is nothing else you Can do.

So yeah, does god need a name then?

Matter of taste, I suppose, and culture. I guess most Western people would feel alienated if they were supposed to pray to Ganesha, for example. And of course there are people who have more than one god, and therefore need names for them.

Praying to a higher diety, having faith in something that you hope has some control of the universe, that's god.

I would like to hear other opions on this: is we people of the Western world who need someone in charge of everything? Is it that we know that we live on a speck in the universe which can easily collide with another speck, or a thousand other things could happen, and even if they don't, we will die? Are we worse at living with death and arbitarity than more socalled primitive people, who often have a much more filosophical attitude? Do we need to know that our children will make it? Or it is simply a need for a sort of neatness??

UPS! I read 'god' as 'good'. Sorry. But I did not want to erase the question which concerns issues I have been thinking about.

Honestly? I'm more concerned about politicians who decide to use my religion for political mudslinging to win votes. A random pastor at some church with no national or major regional presence is a far cry from shit that's already happening.

All good points, IMO.

I think atheists need not worry, lunatics are more concerned about that moozlim (read brown) guy in town and their crazy mosques, and preventing gay rights.

I would have thought so, but atheists seem to be more talked about lately than usual.