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Originally Posted by John Freestone  Love could be God, or it could be the experience my genes create in my senses to trick me into passing them on.
I still feel love. |
These vague definitions of God really annoy me. I could call my house God and be no better or worse off for it, except that some people might consider me a little out there. As far as I know, every culture, whether they were monotheistic or polytheistic, believed in anthropomorphic gods. When we spout these cliches like, "God is love," it reduces the definition to essentially, nothing.
That's probably why I have so much trouble with defending my position over in the "Does God exist?" thread, because people all have different ideas of God! So I say, "God doesn't exist, because..." and they say, "but that's not how I think of God." And I essentially say, I don't care. That's how countless cultures throughout history have defined God. I can't just one day redefine the word "pizza," can I? If someone tells me that pizza is bad for me, but then I say, "that's not how I define pizza," they are likely not to care, because that's how nearly everyone else on Earth defines pizza.