But Joe, we end up with so many "concepts of God" that the concept becomes almost meaningless. He's a spirit that exists in all things. Or he's a force that drives nature. Either of these can be sentient or non-sentient. Or he's a big beardie-weirdie in the sky. He sets up the world to let it run on its own (justification for the all the nasty things that happen on his watch). Or he's all-seeing and all-knowing and he can intervene arbitrarily if we ask him to in our prayers (otherwise, why would you ask?) You can have "your own personal concept" that manages to wriggle round all the objections that make you feel a bit queasy about him. Pointing out to you this incredible diversity of elaborate concepts is not seeing things through a fundamentalist lens. It is simply pointing out the absurdity of it all.