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I think the whole label "God" is a fairly loaded question.
* First of all, many atheists believe God = Man in the Sky who grants wishes, or one of the other strawmen they like to beat up on.
* Christians believe God = The unknowable father; the Son who is Word which created the universe, spoke the to the Prophets, and incarnated into the flesh of Jesus Christ; and the Holy Spirit which is figure who moves into action or some such thing (I have debated with Christians that the Holy Spirit as a separate head in the Trinity is not supported by the Bible or any theology from the time of Jesus or earlier - rather the Bible supports the two parts of God, which is consistent with Hellenistic Jewish theology of the time, but that it is the much later theologians and the Catholic Catechism which adds the third head to the Godhead).
* The Platonists believed God = Unknowable, because "he" exists beyond time and space and is unchanging and therefore perfect, and he created the Universe via the prime mover/Logos (very similar to Christian theology) and the only way we can deduce God's nature is through philosophy.

But what if God = a form of technology or a lifeform we don't yet understand which exists in a higher dimension?
What if God = the maintenance program of a computer simulation?
Then there is the question, what if God = one of the infinite possibilities that I (and possibly anyone else) has never considered?

This is why I generally find it unimportant to dictate what is proper to believe, and what others should believe in. I am very happy to have many people believing many different things, so long as they don't impose "God's will!" on others or trash churches/temples/mosques or other religious sites and people because they don't like the fact that they believe in something different. In my opinion, I don't think it's possible to have enough knowledge to know what the answer is; which is why this post doesn't really offer enough opitions.

The simplistic Yes or No doesn't leave any room for those who haven't decided or who are certain they do not know the answer. Which is where I'd fall.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.