Full Idea
Why is God so dull, so feeble, so inadequately picturesque? Why does He lack interest, vigor, actuality and resemble us so little? Is there any image less anthropomorphic and more gratuitously remote?
Clarification
'anthropomorphic' means human-like
Gist of Idea
Why is God so boring, and why does God resemble humanity so little?
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'The Devil')
Book Reference
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.21
A Reaction
This seems to be directed at those like Feuerbach who said that we had merely created God as a glorified image of humanity.
Related Idea
Idea 6911 God is for us a mere empty idea, which we fill with our own ego and essence [Feuerbach]