Oh God, were these catalogues addressed to children?
His followers, the Servants of God, were nicknamed Red Shirts because of their brick-colored garb.
People who believed in God were more likely than agnostics to be swayed by divine apparitions.
Christians, who saw Jesus as the incarnation of God, were more relaxed about his portrayal.
If God were to want to create more worlds, here, says Milton, are "his dark materials".
The signs from God were, in fact, trail guideposts painted by ordinary mortals.
"If God were a socialist, he would have made all men alike," he once said.
You might even say that the Bible and its God were the Jews' literary answer to the alternative.
Even though he ended up accepting the divine will, the questions that Job put to God were never answered.
In practice, she and her direct line to God were, ultimately, too much for Sir Hugh Carleton Greene and libertarianism.
"She made a considerable bustle," Augustine writes, admiringly, "to ensure that you, my God, were my father, rather than him".
