I see many of us resonate with this kind of impersonal image of God.
To me it feels like it is a very different image than what Jesus was trying to portray to us. As far as I know, at least in Jewish venues, He was the first one to call God, Father. And He urges us in multiple places to pray. Not like a religious, dry and meaningless ritual, but like a communication between a son or daughter to their father. But if you are to choose between "praying" in a religious meaningless way, as if you are doing a ritual to please God or something, I would totally rather go the Spinoza path.
But Jesus shows us there is a third way of relating to God, which it would seem both Spinoza and Einstein didn't know about, at the point they made those declarations, at least.
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08 Jan 02:26
If ask me, as great of minds both Spinoza and Eistein were, I would still go with Jesus because He proved He knew a little bit more about how this Universe works. Walking on water, restoring limbs/eyes instantly, raising dead people, and then He Himself getting resurrected with a new body that never dies. He was in the business of restoring life, not blowing it up in atomic explosions.
He most probably knew how to do that too, but he never used those kinds of powers. And when his disciples wanted to use some kind of destructive powers (bring fire from heaven to kill the opposants), he totally forbade them. A totally different vibration, that he is urging us to finally rise up to....