It's really funny all the excuses people come up with to still believe in God. Up until a couple centuries ago, this idea that he was a non-real being somehow not in our "plane of reality" was completely foreign. God was a literal man living above the firmament of the sky. If you went up there, you would find him. Of course, God is a fairy tale so we didn't find him we invented aviation and space travel (by means of science, which is infinitely more productive than religion), but the idea of God was still emotionally comforting to so many people that they transferred him into some invisible parallel dimension. Why is God hiding so intently from us if he loves us so much and wants us to believe in him? I can't think of a reason why he would be, and it's always fun to watch religionists squirm trying to explain it.

Sometimes people come up with absurd definitions like "God is love" or "God is consciousness". No, love is love and consciousness is consciousness. Love and consciousness did not create the universe. There is no sense praying to love or consciousness. There is nothing about love or consciousness which is supernatural. These things are not gods. They are emergent phenomena of complex nervous systems, and using the word "God" for them is just plain misleading.