Alright, I'll bite. I'll bite harder than a kinky George Burns bitin' on his cigar while he makes love to Earl's women.
I am going to give a completely serious definition of God. There's nothing I'd love more to do. But let me stress that I am the person who made the
"I'm Becoming A Fabulous Atheist" thread (which, I think, I edited to remove most of my original post -- don't ask -- I felt at the time that it was stupid. Now I kinda think I should re-edit it using my original post quoted by others.) Anyways, let me put on some Mozart and I'll begin writing my definition of God. I'll even do the whole
God n format that our bookkeeper wants us to use.
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A definition by Sexy Celebrity:
What does God mean to me? I have, for some time now, considered myself agnostic. Am I really a fabulous atheist at heart, though? I admit that I fear more and more that God does not exist. But what exactly
is God? Is God a person? Is God the creator? The father of Mankind? Is God someone I could actually meet in person? Is God watching me right now? Or ever? Is God someone watching what I do -- what everyone does? Is God an actual entity?
I was born and raised to believe in God. My mother is a Baptist who confesses a solid belief in God. My father is a grumpy sourpuss that was raised Catholic and always claimed to be an atheist whenever he answered the front door because Michael, LaToya and the rest of the Jehovah's Witnesses were calling on my family. But he might secretly, at heart, believe in God. My older sister read every Max Lucado book she could get her hands on and she eventually married a man who studied for the priesthood. They preach religion and Jesus everywhere they go, much to my disdain. My sister has now found Joyce Meyer. My mother alternates between books on the Apocalypse and books on reincarnation and UFOs. I read Carl Sagan and
Jake Gyllenhaal Monthly.
The subject of God has always fascinated me probably thanks in large part to my wacky family upbringing, the constant chatterings of Christian messages full of hope, love and damnation, and my possibly innate curiosity with the world, with the reason for why we're here. At a very early age, I was already asking questions such as,
Can you imagine if there was nothing at all? If there was nothing -- no people, no planet, no outer space, no life? I mean, I seriously asked these things starting around 5 years old. I was 25 when I learned that you don't ask these things while driving with a gay church music director down a scenic, nature filled road -- it's much too deep for a first date. Thank God for popcorn and
The MoFo Support Group. Ohhhh, but what exactly am I thanking?
I've only been to church a few times in my life. My older sister would take me a few times when I was a child. We never went as a family. But she and I would go to the 11:00 am Sunday service. I would pray for Monday when I would go back to school -- it was less boring. Sometimes we would stand up and sing from a hymnal, which was really embarrassing. I hated singing in all the school music classes I used to have to take. So, singing in church was pointless and not even something that was required of me! I don't know what it is with me, psychologically, that made me date a lot of music majors who loved to sing, who also happened to be very religious. My ex-partner was one of those people. I also made an appearance in a few churches because of him, whether it was for some kind of orchestra rehearsal or an actual musical program being put on. I remember reviewing a Bible during such a time. God seemed like such a tyrant in the passages that I read.
Anyway, enough background. What is my definition of God?
I have come to believe that it's impossible to really define God. Those that don't believe in God but follow science and natural law have got the ultimate, most definitive definition of God that I think we could possibly have right now: There is no God. Nothing to define.
I choose not to really see it like that. They could very well be right, but my agnosticism keeps me open minded. I would say that God
is not human. He probably
does not resemble a person, unless he/she/it (and I'm not calling God a hermaphrodite, there, either) may choose to appear that way, for whatever reason.
I think that, considering the universe we live in is so enormous, with so many planets and galaxies, that we don't know much about all there is. I don't think there's one correct religion on Earth because I have no idea what else is going on in the physical universe we do live in, even if we aren't seeing it/experiencing it/knowing it.
I think it's possible that, if there is a God, whatever God is,
we are probably connected to God, somehow. It may even be possible that
we are a part of God. But don't let that get to your head. We are still all simple, ordinary human beings on the planet Earth. We are all very small. What happens to us after we die -- if we continue on somewhere else -- I can't say for sure. Sadly, it could be nothing. We are barely even specs of dust when you consider how enormous this physical universe we inhabit is. BUT, I am amazed that us specs of dust have created and cultivated all that we currently have on Earth. I think there is something miraculous and wonderful about that. I think we should preserve that and try to become even bigger and better than we are now.
In my opinion:
God is whatever we define him/her/it to be. Simply put, I don't think God's gonna answer us directly and tell us if we're right or wrong. If he does, then you've just redefined him on your own. God could be the most wonderful thing in the world or the most awful thing. Because our ideas about God come from ourselves, in a way, God is ourselves. We restructure the universe in our own ways with whatever we do and say. If you think about that, we're no different than all of the other stuff that made the universe, that evolved all of the different species, that form things, that destroy things. The Big Bang was an explosion and scattering of chemicals -- we're all made of chemicals. We're directed by the chemicals in our brains.
God is us. God is everything. But is there a God outside of everything? A God that's watching us and directing us? I don't know. I think it would be very nice if there was, and I don't look down on those who feel that way.
God's a feeling. You either feel God with you or you feel hatred or indifference or the thought of God makes you wanna laugh. God's an idea that was somehow put into humanity's mind.
To put it bluntly, I don't know what the hell God truly is. If he wants to have dinner with me and let me get to know him, it can be arranged, but he'll have to come to my place -- I'm not ready to go to his place.
I'll end this post with a vision: