Do we really need a thought-reading, sin-punishing, prayer-answering God?

The metaphorical or pantheistic God of the physicists is light years away from the interventionist, miracle wreaking, thought-reading, sin-punishing, prayer-answering God of the Bible, of priests, mullahs, and rabbis, and or ordinary language. Deliberately confusing the two is, in my opinion, an act intellectual high treason.