Interesting! This Julia Hubbel quote -- "You can safely assume you've created God in your image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do" -- sounds like a way of saying people use selective perception & subjective validation to create this individualized image of 'God' . As if we let our own self-congratulating brain run away from us...

Aligns really well with our current ideas of behavioral psychology

https://medium.com/share-the-wealth/how-does-thinking-work-a795c042457b