- they don't create or destroy
- it's not possible to have any sort of relationship with them
- they don't intervene in the universe

- they didn't set down of laws of the universe
- they don't make any demands on human beings
- they don't reward human beings in any way, or forgive their sins, or give them grace

- human beings don't owe their existence to them
- humans can only use them as an inspiration

Different Ideas of Gods