"I made God look the way I think most of us are pretty sure He looks."
— Gary Larson, The PreHistory Of The Far Side
Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man, dressed in a long robe, with a golden sash around His chest. The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire. His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters. He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the Sun shining at its brightest. When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last."
— John, Book of Revelation
Instead, he finds this: a Middle Eastern, Jewish carpenter named Jesus; the Holy Spirit embodied in a wispy Asian woman who loves to garden and God (played by “The Help” star Octavia Spencer) as the very opposite of the Gandalf-like grandpa figure modern society is used to seeing.
— Katie Mettler, discussing The Shack in "Why God is a curvy, black woman in ‘The Shack’ and some Christian critics say it’s ‘heresy’
Dear God, dear Lord, dear vauge muscular man with a beard or a sword.
—Bo Burnham in "Rant"
