The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.
Sometimes she gets irritated, as when reading Howards End and noting Forster's "unsuccessful poetic passages", places where "he is lecturing us", and his "childish religious beliefs: God must be like Forster".
On one of the many occasions that he was flattened in training by a 300lb linebacker on the football field Plimpton was surprised to hear himself emit the childish curse "Ye gods and little fishes!" in what sounded like an English accent.
Thank God that childish idea has vanished.
She held us pretty much in thrall with her dogma, as dumbed down by our childish minds: Pray fervently, and God and I will always love you; pray the right way, and you'll never get sick.
You may not have realized it, but real roller coasters -- not the absurd, pretzel-twist sidewinders of your childish imagination, but honest-to-God, magnets-and-steel coasters that you can ride in real life -- are also run by computers.
It's all very well to assert that it's childish or primitive to believe in God.
Best Rap Performance "3005" by Childish Gambino "0-100" by Drake "Rap God" by Eminem "i" by Kendrick Lamar "All I Need Is You" by Lecrae.
This image of God and humans, frankly, is childish and primitive, and from this perspective there is no God, just as electrons are not tiny balls orbiting bigger balls.
But no two people / can agree on what it means, as though we were sounding boards / for each childish attempt at wireless communication the gods can invent".
Like an idealized father, God is the projection of childish wishes for an omnipotent protector.
