He's a deadbeat dad. He impregnated his daughter with himself (yuck). He doesn't appreciate fine wine. He can't follow an R-rated movie. He prefers the company of men who kill their sons. He refuses to socialize with other gods. He thinks Utah is a pretty cool state. He doesn't "get" off color jokes. His only friend is a ghost. He's afraid his church will get sued or ridiculed. Anyone can squeeze salvation out of him with simple obedience to his lackeys.
Hey I like a heavenly fayher how tells me I got a wife out in that sea to kneel to for all eternity... and the other 20 spritual wives... (14 yo's) and money to take from scams and move many times. And I get to divorce them 14yo wives if they become dissidents. Sounds.like a great guy!
I always had difficulty with the term Heavenly Father, simply because like many women of my age group, my relationship with my own father was a distant one. Like many post WW2 men, my Dad's view of the world was highly masculinist and very militaristic. He had also developed the habit of drinking A LOT while serving in the Australian Air Force. He wasn't mean or awful, just absent, in every way. He had NO idea how to interact with a little girl.
SO the only guide I had to a Heavenly Father was an absent rather non caring father (it wasn't until I was quite a mature adult that I realised it wasn't that he didn't care, just that he was totally unskilled in saying or showing it - plus due to his alcohol addiction, the bottle came before everything else - that is just how it was!).
Today I use the term God, it covers any form of HIgher Power and fills my needs.
I do not like the term Heavenly Father. Why? Because he reminds me of my human father.
The difference between my father and Heavenly Father, is that one is a narcissistic, patriarchal,self-important, arrogant, demeaning, sexist, violent, abusive male who demands that I cringe in subservient submission to him, while the other is my Dad.
I didn't ask for all of you brats, it turns out there is no such thing as a pill to stop spirit babies from being made, and well, I am surrounded by all of these babalicious spirit wives and I have...needs. What would you do?
I literally cannot. Stand. The term. But even worse is when Mormons refer to God as simply "father," and to Smith as merely "Joseph" or "the prophet Joseph." *shudders*