it seems to me that the goal of most organized religions is to make God abstract and distant... and to disguise the real nature of the threat faced by humanity (despite that various parts of the bible still, even after edits, removals, changes etc, still contain the story of the war in the "heavens" and the implications for mankind. so it becomes about dry dead dogma, instead of fluid living spirituality... no doubt this is an effective way to turn many otherwise intelligent spiritual people away from giving much thought about these subjects... mission accomplished.