If God is not a person like you or I, then what is he?
An effective way of promoting harmony in society, by stratifying people. No man is a god. God is above all men. If you don't believe this, you aren't worthy of consideration...we may go so far as to kill you.
But, then again, some men have always thought themselves god (or have always acted as such). The egyption pharoes didn't even bother to hide it. They thought themselves devine, deserving of no less than total adulation. I'd imagine most of the most influential at one point or another challenged god's supremacy.
Why is it, then, that some respond to the god idea by assuming that he is the unquestionable supreme being, and others decide instead to challenge his supremacy?
What motivates these two groups of men? The god challengers and those that suppose that challenging god would be futile?
And what role does modern day technology play in all this? Will we all become god challengers? Will that lead to everyone believing that they are above god's morality, or have the ability to define it, thus rendering it arbitrary? Or will there develop a new social institution to seperate the challengers from those who can't or won't? Or perhaps nothing at all?
Isn't that what the devil wants? For people to challenge god? Of course the people who challenge god also challenge his authority on the wants of the devil...for perhaps the only reason we think that's what the devil wants is because god told us so. A catch 22. What to believe now?
Is the god concept (a sort of naturalistic order idealogy) worthy of being thought of as being unquestionable in all instances? Is humanity destined never to get past nature? Or can that over reaching concept be challenged, without falling victim to the devils desires?
All this, assuming of course, that god and the devil exist...or at the least their attributes manifest themselves in a real way in human beings. Said another way, that some people are inherently good and others inherently evil.