We’ve been told from childhood of an awesome God, a Creator so vast that all we can see is His, so powerful that He can stop the sun in its course, yet so compassionate that the fall of every sparrow is known to Him.
He set the stars in the firmament and breathed life into the clay. At his word, nations rise and fall, paradise blooms and the world is drowned. All of heaven and earth are His jurisdiction and every creature his vassal. Should He desire song, rocks and stones will sing for Him.
Yet there are among His dearest creatures those without faith and understanding of His power. They doubt His omnipotence.
They will deny it, proclaiming that no one exceeds them in faith, but their works deny their words.
For if God is an awesome God, why would He ever need the feeble laws of men for His will to be done? Why would something as flawed and transient as a human government be required for His glory to be reflected on earth?
I don’t know why a man feels the need to inscribe Commandments on courthouses or refuse a woman free will or stop strangers from joining in marriage. The reasons are likely many and varied.
But don’t let such men tell you their actions spring from understanding and worshipping an awesome God. A deity who needs a soldier to enforce His will is not a creator, but a creation.
A small creation. Of small men.
Note: I have many opinions on the subject of such a being, but no beliefs. “There is at present insufficient data to form a meaningful conclusion.”
A final note: ”You are a strange species.”