>>Who says God is bound by our standards?

I'm with Epicurus on this one. His take (during the period people worshiped and propitiated multiple gods) was that gods, if they existed at all, were on such a different plane than humans that they'd care no more about what we do than we care about where an ant puts a grain of sand in process of excavating its nest.

Again, this was during a period where citizens were expected to propitiate the gods as a civic duty (piss one off and the disaster hits everyone - same reason Christians got martyred by the Romans) so this was said at risk of being ejected from his polis (Socrates took poison as an alternative to ejection).

He's more famous for his take on the afterlife (something the Greeks were afraid of) saying that we've already experienced being not-alive from before we were born. Was that painful?

He had quite a following in the years before Christianity. Many gravestones inscribed "I lived, I Died. It doesn't matter." Christians did their best to 'erase' him, making 'Epicureanism' the pursuit of good food and wine and not recopying anything with his writings (paper and velum crumble eventually) so it was just a matter of waiting long enough.

But for those of us wondering "why does this God-existence thing even matter?", he's the guy to read.