Greetings

[Cyberman]

This god of yours picked my pocket. Or was that a dream? Anyhow, welcome aboard. You can still leave now, if you wish. The doors don't lock until... oh snap, too late. Looks like you're stuck with us.

[Bad Writer]

Does this entity you believe in necessarily have to be labeled as a god? The word "god" carries a lot of baggage with it, but you don't need me to tell you that.

Oh, and welcome!!!

[pocaracas]

Welcome to this fine corner of the web!
Enjoy your stay and argue a lot!

[KichigaiNeko]

[Nexys]

Does this entity you believe in necessarily have to be labeled as a god? The word "god" carries a lot of baggage with it, but you don't need me to tell you that.

Oh, and welcome!!!

Thank you.

And, no, the deity I believe in does not have to be labeled as a god. God/Diety/Supreme Being/Other Intelligence/The Divine/Nature/etc...it doesn't matter what word one uses. I tend to stick to "god" as it is the term most recognizable by people. But, in the end, it really just comes down to personal preference as for name/designation, I suppose. This is true especially since my beliefs don't involve any sort of dogma - simply the belief in a being which created the universe and then stopped being involved, choosing instead to allow the universe to evolve however it would.

[frankiej]

Howdy!

[Cyberman]

Probably a question best expanded on in a dedicated thread, but does this god-entity-thing need to have been intelligent? Or even conscious?

What I'm getting at is we already have fairly substantial explanations for what caused the Universe and though nobody has yet been able to pin down precisely whatever caused that cause, there doesn't seem to be any evidence to suppose it was ever alive; however you wish to define that term.