(July 6, 2014 at 5:06 am)Purplundy Wrote:Sounds vaguely pragmatist. Have you read William James?(July 6, 2014 at 2:08 am)Jenny A Wrote: If you define god as some variant of a supernatural being who created the universe that's plenty for me to go on. I don't believe it.Personally, when talking about God, I don't tend to lean on the "How else did we get here?" part because it really has no effect on anybody.
If you have some other definition, and you have some evidence for it's existence as you've defined it, I'll be happy to consider it.
I'd say that God is like a resource. That when you hear the phrase "God is good," it means that good is God. That when people are good, when life is good, God is there. Religion (and non-religion) are a collection of theories on how to tap that resource.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
