I am by no means an atheist, just to be clear on that. My concept of God is not the one common to most Christian dogmas, however. I have long believed that God cannot possibly be God if It is hemmed in with limits: human thought has tended to perceive It with the limits that we take in our own experience as absolutes, such as gender or desire for power or need to assert authority. How, I ponder, can God be Absolute, and be male, or female? How can God's concept of power be as limited as ours?... Sign in to see full entry.