Where and how "God" lives

A Christian wrote:

"To enjoy Gods creation is an accepted form of worship as long as your heart is directed towards him, he wants to be acknowledged in all things which is a delightful, maturing and refining experience, he is the artist that enjoys your wonder and awe as your appreciation is a part of his masterpiece and the more you love it the more he shows it off, its all about the heart, if your heart goes to the ocean more than it goes to God then yes you are committing idolatry but if your heart is grateful to God for the ocean then its in its right place... Whenever you are amazed you are having a taste of what he is really like and what it is like knowing him, all the time."
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My thoughts on this:
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I realize that your "God" lives.

But only in your mind.

He started there, in the garden of your mind, as an idea; a seed planted by other humans.

Your environment watered and fed that idea,
while that same social environment kept softening the ground in your mind's garden, so that the seeds could reach deep and take root.

It took root.

It grew.

As it grew,
part of your mind was coopted;
taken over and walled off,
  as the emerging voice began to "take on a life of its own".

His words ...
scripted first by long-dead writers;

eventually transferred to you,
with extra word given to it by modern churches, culture, and parental figures from your own journey.

Much of his personality and 'ways of thinking' ... are actually expressions of your own;

-per how you were molded to think.

To satisfy the narrative you were given,
you relate to "Him"
as if he would be someone who ~isn't you~.


But "He" is partly you.

He is also a puppet figure
for unscrupulous people to speak through;

- giving their will ~authority~ over yours.

They identify as fellows slaves to
that same God-puppet.

But even if one does live in their mind,
it's not the same as the one that lives in yours.

Yours is a puppet which they (and people like them) helped install into your mind.

 
"He" exists as a combination of
characteristic given to him by other humans 
and
characteristics unique to you. 

This why "He" is consists of 
positive and negative human ideas and character-traits. 
 There was no other material available to assemble him with. 
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Consider, too, why his negative traits are so extreme.

Ask any qualified clinical psychiatrist, or behavioral psychologist.

They'll tell you that:

~Anyone~
who "wants to be acknowledged by others
in ALL things" ...
has not been "maturing".

Such a thing is not a "refining experience".

Such a thing is not even usually "delightful", because:

That degree of needy emotional dependence comes automatically with equally dramatic vulnerability ... causing equally dramatic emotional distress ...
whenever anyone is NOT providing a purely positive acknowledgement.

This is why the early story creators had "God" behaving so horribly whenever he didn't feel like the perfectly adored, absolute-center of everyone's life.

The writers were writing about the emotionally dysfunctional figure which lived in their minds.

It was how "He" felt
whenever he wasn't feeling validated.

They just weren't recognize that
as a psychologically hijacked part of their own mind.
- Just as you're not supposed to ever realize it either.