Yeah, Frank. ;-) Those Dick Cheney type gods are to be avoided at all costs! The Aztecs had some gods like that.

Regarding the female version of God in my story..."sexy"? Well, there's a degree of beauty and inner power that simply goes so far beyond "sexy" that all you can do in its presence is to be in a state of total awe...and you don't tend to think about sex at all when you're in that state.

(Not that I'm saying that extreme sexiness cannot also produce a state of awe under certain conditions...it can. But that's a different case altogether.)

Joan of Arc, for example, produced a state of profound awe in the French knights and soldiers who served under her command for one brief, incredible year. And she was considered beautiful. But they did not look upon her as a sex object...they would not have dared to. They looked upon her as the very embodiment and soul of France. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. This version of God in the parable is the very embodiment of the principle of Life itself, and of all that is holy about Life...seen in this case, in a female archetype. I think I prefer the female archetype when it comes to that, although either way would be fine.