Red:
??? -- What?
The topic and thrust of discussion here is whether God can do anything. It is not what God can be or what be God's nature.
You can use the following sentence structure model to help you structure your response to the question and to evaluate others' responses to it:
- "God ____________." All you need do is replace the blank with the auxiliary verb can + a main verb. Depending on what be the main verb one uses, For example:
- God can sing.
- God can swat flies.
- God can do cartwheels.
So, no, not "sort of like a religious placebo." because "God can religious placebo" or "God can do religious placebo" makes no sense whatsoever. "God can be a religious placebo" makes sense as a sentence, but that sentence notes defines God's nature rather than describing the range of things God can do.
Off-Topic/Blue:
"God" is the name of the Christian god. "Allah" is the name of the Islamic god. "Yahweh"/"Jehovah" is the name of the Jewish god.
How one "defines God" is irrelevant because there is only one god having the name "God," and that god is the one described in the compilation of texts called the Bible, the first five books of which are the Torah. The Islamic god, Allah, must logically be the same entity as God because Christianity, Judaism and Islam all allege that there is only one god. Thus, if there is only one god, then, even though the three religions have differing beliefs about that god's nature, words and deeds, the god of which each faith remarks must yet be the same being and the respective faiths (and their respective texts telling of that god) have either misconstrued that god's nature and/or omitted from their telling of that god's nature, deeds and words all that the god is, said and did.
One can easily see that if one has a name by which one is to some population known and another name by which another population knows one. For instance, I have a brother whom, growing up, we called "Skip." That name stuck with him until he commenced his professional life, at which point he simply didn't tell folks to call him "Skip" -- as a kid he didn't have much choice; Granny, Momma and Dad called him "Skip," so we kids and all our relatives did too. Since he didn't tell his professional associates that he went by "Skip," none of them use that name for him.
The consequence of Skip's being known by two names and being one person is that were folks in my family to chronicle the nature, words, and deeds of Skip, the story we'd tell would differ in places from the one his professional associates tell, and in other places they'd be essentially the same. So it is with Allah and God. Two names; same "guy."