When someone is listening to music, the music’s note, pitch, speed, volume and the listener’s ear
vibration and heartbeat can be measured by scientific instruments. However, the listener’s aesthetic
experience cannot. This experience is experienced by the listener alone. Even if asked to, the listener
could not fully translate the experience to others, in part because it is beyond words and their own
consciousness. The emotional experience is experiential, and therefore as subjective as it is ineffable.
And this illustrates the trouble with any idea of a God, for God is an infinite abstraction that can only ever be experienced subjectively, like music, in a way unique to each and every person. God, as such, operates like an emotional inkblot. So just imagine people arguing and killing each other over their interpretation of an inkblot, and that's what religions selling God encourage people to do.
Or think of it this way. If God is infinity, then each person experiences "God" as a unique number unto themselves. So, even though everyone knows what numbers are, each person's experience is a particular number different from everyone else's. It's like each person having a unique social security number, so to speak, so that each person would experience an "infinite" God as a number God had assigned to them that was unique to each person, however similar the numbers may be.
The problem is that this is like treating a God that amounts to a numerical inkblot as being objectively knowable in such a way as for every single person on the planet to know exactly what "God" is and is not, and what that "God" wants from each of us. Yet this is like assuming each person has the ability to do math equally, and count to infinity, or at least know what individual number of "God" each person happens to possess. But some people are better at simple arithmetic and others at advanced calculus, even though both brings no one any closer to counting to infinity.
And that brings us to an even bigger problem. The "God" being sold to us by the major brands of religion is said to operate outside of the "laws" of math, the same way it operates outside the laws of morality. God can kill everyone on the planet, fire bomb cities like Sodom and Gomorrah, and cast souls into an eternal torture chamber that serves no purpose other than to cause pain, and never be considered "immoral" for doing so by true "believers." That means such a God is not something the normal laws and logic of mathematics (or morals) will automatically lead us all to reach, let alone let us all add up to the same sum. Instead, as Picasso said about art, "you will not understand art as long as you won't understand that in arts 1+1 will give you any result but 2."
God being an infinite abstraction that is said to not be bound by the laws or logic of mathematics, especially because such a God must exceed the limits of human reason and perception, means that God is each and every number possible, just as much as that God is also the infinite number of numbers we can imagine, including imaginary numbers.
Catholicism even demonstrates how the God it sells requires a kind of "mystery" mathematical logic, which operates as a fundamental basis of any understanding of the "God" it sells, for it claims that God is 1(Jesus) + 1(Yahweh) = 3, and nothing else! even though God, being more analogues to art than to mathematics, is any of the infinite other possible numbers, including 2, just as much as that God is all possible numbers, even fully imaginary ones.
What Catholicism cannot account for, however, is why such a God would need a Church to proclaim the infallible truth that 1 + 1 = 3, in order to keep in line with threats and tortures a bunch of damn dirty apes said God had designed with the intelligence to do, and designed with a reward system of dopamine that fills us with an overwhelming desire and need to grow synaptic connections in our brain by doing, calculus and quadratic equations.
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