God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
