Criticizing God -- or Not

Odd Thomas, a character invented by Dean Koontz, gets me thinking.  He is ruminating, and wonders:

"I’m not criticizing God, if that’s what you think, because nobody knows why God does things or how He thinks, and He’s humongously smarter than any of us, even smarter than [massive super computer artificial intelligence - Ed].  They say he works in mysterious ways, which is for sure true. What I’m saying is, maybe the whole praying business is a human idea, maybe God never asked us to do it.  Yeah, all right, He wants us to like Him, and He wants us to respect Him, so we’ll live right, and do good.  But God is good—right?—and to be really good you’ve got to have humility, we all know that, so then if God is the best of the best, then He’s also the humblest of the humble.  Right?  So maybe it embarrasses Him to be praised like around the clock, to be called great and mighty all the time.  And maybe it makes Him a little bit nuts the way we’re always asking Him to solve our problems instead of even trying to solve them ourselves, which He made us so we could do.”
  “Odd Interlude”, by Dean Koontz, p. 225 (paper) 

What kinds of wondering about God goes on in your mind?  Do you ever think, really think, about God as person?

I recall as a young man being impressed, or depressed, by the number of church people I knew who never thought about God.  They thought about rules, about salvation, about heaven, about hell, about right, about wrong, about theological formulae -- but they never thought about God.  

Then ten or more years later I was impressed, or depressed, by the number to church leaders (mostly televangelists) who knew exactly what God wants, who described in great detail how we could impress God.  After a bit of their blather I began realizing they still weren't thinking about God as person.  They were thinking about self as impressing the great favor-dispenser in the sky.  

Odd Thomas raises some interesting musing in my mind.  What if God really is humble, for instance?

What do you think?  Leave a comment and let us know.