Thomas Hobbes and God.

Despite Hobbes's bold attempt to prove the contrary, his political philosophy is incompatible with any kind of faith in God ecept a kind which is rarely found. It is possible to believe in a God who, having some of the properties usually attributed to him, lacks others; a God who is omnipotent (or at least incomparably more powerful than his creatures) but also quite indifferent to them. Some of the deists of the eighteenth century believed in such a God. Again, it is possible to believe that God requires no more of man than that he should keep the peace. If God is indifferent to man or requires so little of him, then Hobbes's philosophy is compatible with faith in God. But then few men have believed in such a God, and faith would not be what it has been, and still is to those that have it, if there were no more to it than that.
Casalino Pierluigi, on July 2nd 2014