““You see God as an engineer?” asked Urpastor Phelps.
“I don’t see God as anything at all.”
“An engineer, you said. An incompetent engineer.”
“Incompetent, perfect, who knows? God is whatever we agree to pretend God is. God is our image of God.””

—  James K. Morrow, book Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 16 (p. 272)

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