1) Those who held to the belief in an anthropomorphic personal God who
was benevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

(2) Those who saw in the constitution of our universe an impersonal
Supreme Power, who had created the universe, but who had not given us
any revelation, and thus has no need for worship by prayer and
sacrifice.

(3) Those who very recently conceived of the deity as a "cosmic force,"
an "ultimate," or as a mathematical or physical law. Such are the
hypotheses of Jeans and Eddington. The Martian set about, therefore,
with the principle that, "God is a hypothesis, and as such, stands in
need of proof."

(1) The belief in a personal God:

The Martian, as our guest, had by this time had ample opportunity to
survey our civilization, and to acquaint himself with the things with
which God in His goodness had endowed His earthly children. A proponent
of a personal God informs him that his deity is an infinite personal
being of consciousness, intelligence, will, good, unity, and Beauty; the
Supreme, the infinite personality, who was loving, benevolent,
omnipotent, and omniscient. Like the American from Missouri, the visitor
hastened to see for himself the marvelous workings of such an exalted
being, for surely such a being, with such attributes as he was credited
with, would certainly be in an excellent position to bestow great gifts
upon his earthly children.

The Martian is informed that the vast majority of our inhabitants, no
matter what their geographical distribution may be, are suffering from a
"financial depression" brought on by the last World War. War and cruelty
are synonymous in the mind of our seeker for God; and immediately, there
arises a conflict between the conception of an omnipotent, all-wise and
loving God and one who would permit war and cruelty. Fearing that he has
not comprehended the meaning of an omnipotent being, he turns to the
lexicon for verification, only to learn that it means an all-powerful
being. How, then, could an omnipotent being permit wholesale and
private murder? Is He not rather a demon than a God? On the other hand,
if this being is not omnipotent, then He is a useless god, and there is
no need for all the fears which religion breeds, no need for creed and
worship. Every war, particularly this last one, is an indictment of God.
"God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world," is seemly only to
minds drugged with an irrational creed.

"If there is a God, he is quite