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Full Idea
God is free from passions, neither is He affected with any affect of joy or sorrow.
Gist of Idea
God feels no emotions, of joy or sorrow
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], V Pr 17)
Book Ref
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. White,WH/Stirling,AH [Wordsworth 2001], p.239
A Reaction
The general Christian view is that God has great compassion for human suffering, as Jesus appears to have had. Spinoza was very very intellectual.