Think of a perfect father. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Okay, now what are some of the attributes that are ascribed to him?
Loving?
Accepting?
Selfless?
Wants what's best for you?
Wants you to become self-sufficient?
Wants to teach you until you can "stand" alone?
I like the analogy of god as a father, but it ends up failing miserably when it comes to "growing up" and being your own person. I find it fascinating how fully and completely this analogy fails when it comes to the western ideal of god. They imagine a god that wants them to be good, love him, and worship him.
That doesn't sound like any father I've heard of...
Well it does, but I have yet to hear of any good fathers that want his children to worship him, normally when that happens they end up drinking the kool-aid...
And that's why you can't compare a father to a deity. Unless your deity wants you to grow up as a person, society, race, world, etc....
