The God beyond our dogmas
Just recently I came across a cartoon. It showed an elderly bearded man in a white robe sitting before a panel of television monitors. It was obviously God keeping his world and children under surveillance. In front of God were two buttons, one said "Smite" and the other "Bless." God's finger was on the "smite" button. His attention was focused on a monitor that showed a piano falling from a building and about to crush an unwary pedestrian. So the vision of a God who punishes by sending calamity upon us lingers on. Someone has called this the vision of the cosmic jailer.