Why should humans care what God thinks?

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Why should anyone care about how anyone thinks?

It’s because caring about how someone else thinks gives you access to a perspective that’s not your own. You don’t even have to be a theist to understand the utility of trying to appreciate the perspective of an imaginary God.

In fact, you can practicably be God in certain situations. There’s video games that give you the power of life and death over other characters, and these other characters can even be controlled by real people.

The game master in a game of Dungeons and Dragons is charged with providing the exact same service that God in real life is charged with providing you day to day.

You can play with the concepts of divinity in literary or in the concepts of a game, and in so doing, you’re putting yourself in the mind of God. This is quite a mystical thing to do, even if you feel it’s just imagination.

Mysticism is built on imagination.