What do you know about God?

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What do you know about God? taking into account the multitude of interpretations and representations found in different religious traditions, such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and indigenous belief systems, while also exploring the philosophical debates regarding the nature and existence of God? Additionally, how do personal experiences and cultural contexts shape individual perceptions of the divine, and in what ways do these beliefs influence ethical principles, societal structures, and the ongoing conversation between faith and science in contemporary discourse? Moreover, how have historical events and movements, as well as literary and artistic expressions, contributed to our understanding of God throughout time?
 
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I know a few things.

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He's real, and he's hopping mad.
But nobody down here speaks for him.
Especially not that prat in the mitre out washing niggers feet.
 
It does not love us, or anything alive.

If it's there, it's probably a blood god, and we're the cattle. Or it's gone insane.

Ideally, it's dead, or asleep, or the engine that runs it has malfunctioned.
 
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I cannot explain much. I struggle with my words. When I think I have reached something, I realise I am regurgitating wise and dead men. The further I go, the more I fall, but the stronger I have become. I believe I have reached something. I have had moments of clarity. I have had moments of despair, the hope for a total silence. Forgive the personal tone, the "I thinks" and the "I believes", but I have yet to seriously discuss the idea that occupies my mind for the most of the day. I am willing to admit that. It drives everything I do and yet I rarely speak about it. It's all contained in the head.

Auden came close to how I feel in 'The Labyrinth':

The centre that I cannot find
Is known to my Unconscious Mind;
I have no reason to despair
Because I am already there.

It is an individual thing. To explain is to spoil. I read too much. I mediate very little. We can only go on journeys, around the world and around our mind, and realise that the end is just the beginning. That's TS Eliot. I am regurgitating again.

What do I know? I don't know. Or I did. I find study humbling. I am not a smart man. I have long realised that. Above average, sure, but I have met people who grasp concepts and ideas far quicker than I have ever done. I know people who fit-in and get on with life far easier than I am able to. I wouldn't be on this site otherwise. But I am glad to be where I am at, thinking. There's always something to be done.

I love life. I love God. I love this site. The gifts I have been given, that I have worked on, that's great. I am grateful, not to something higher, not to unknown forces, not to my ego, but strictly to God. That's as far as I will go- for now.
 
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The only thing people "know" about god is what they want god to be or what they have been taught by others, so nothing at all, it's hopeful self-induced delusion most of the time.

For me, I've maintained since a long time that if a god were to exist in this world, it would amount to them being either a malicious or negligent demon, departing from any and all religions & doctrines, which are 100% man-made.

You can disagree with it obviously, that's my opinion.
 
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We Are The Witches said:
The only thing people "know" about god is what they want god to be or what they have been taught by others, so nothing at all, it's hopeful self-induced delusion most of the time.

For me, I've maintained since a long time that if a god were to exist in this world, it would amount to them being either a malicious or negligent demon, departing from any and all religions & doctrines, which are 100% man-made.

You can disagree with it obviously, that's my opinion.
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"God" is more just the set of principles behind this universe than any individual entity. Maybe "God" played a role in creating it, but does "God" actually govern? Somehow I doubt it. The most primitive societies like Australian Aboriginals and Native Americans believed this, and it's interesting that more complex societies had a tendency to overthink what the divine really was, with the exception of some like Gautama Buddha, John the Baptist, etc.

What I can say 100% for sure is that God is not the Semitic storm god El whom the ancient Hebrews called Yahweh, and that Yahweh is not some all-powerful divine entity who demands your foreskin and eternal fealty and sent some Messiah named Jesus or let's you cheat his laws with a bunch of wire or waving a chicken over your head. That's silly.
 
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