http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/does_g...a_personality/

A good reason to not trust your theology, psychology, or philosophy to a comic strip writer:

I'm not sure I endorse all of Adams' argument (are ALL manifestations of personality a result of defects?).

But what I would say about it is that religious scripture seems full of God expressing personality traits that really do suggest defects. Vengeance, jealousy, capriciousness, lack of proportion, bad judgment, etc.

It's possible for the God of monotheists, as an allegedly intelligent being, to have a personality. But if God has the attributes that monotheists attribute to Her (especially those of omnipotence and complete benevolence), God certainly should have a very different personality than the one portrayed.

I don't think this blogpost was very well argued. It seems tautological (in the rhetorical sense, not necessarily the logical sense). Also, even if we assume it isn't... and we also accept that strenous proposition that any personality trait is necessitates a defect... the causal direction is still not revealed.

All that being said, it is still fascinating how the personality of God tends to be overlooked in theological debate. These big grandiose arguments that are so often used to argue for the existence of "God" are really about faceless mystical entities with no discernible traits beyond "necessary".

I have never understood why arguments for completely anonymous deities are somehow looked upon as profound. Believing in such gods would for all practical purposes be far closer to atheism than revealed religion.