From the time humans first developed the capacity to verbally communicate, they looked to the heavens and developed varying beliefs in a power beyond their limited comprehension or understanding. This power is known by many today simply as God. Since the dawn of mankind, most religions have attempted to assign attributes to, or define, what God is. Mankind has an incredibly varied vocabulary and has among its population individuals possessing astonishing theological and analytical ability. Yet, we still lack the required spiritual consciousness to properly describe exactly what kind of being God is. When attempting to establish the meaning, or an attribute, of God, our decidedly limited linguistic ability has created a long series of self-imposed challenges. Theologians, philosophers and lay persons alike use "[...] figures of speech--allegories, metaphors, and similes-- [...]" (Marthaler 38) in an attempt to create or convey an understanding of what they think God is. After all the centuries of discussion, we still do not know (and many never know) what God actually represents. This knowledge may already be lost to history, or is defined in a religion existing today, or may be revealed to us at some point in the future. What we do know is the fact human beings have spent literally thousands of years attempting to fit God into our limited understanding of the world we live in. Attempting to decipher what ancient authors meant with the Christian Creed's use of "Father," or dealing with the more timely reality of people criticizing the traditional image of God as Father, we need to understand what happens when people take "God-Talk" too seriously.
             Most religions assigned their various religious figureheads (or gods) an appellation, which likely had some cultural significance, or possibly provided a sense of familiarity for a faceless entity. Even the God of Christianity (the same God in the time be...