Belief in God or declaring to be an atheist, both are what they are. Everyone is at a different level of understanding or seeing. Those who resist the belief on either side are both struggling with a ‘literal’ three letter word that is not the ‘one’ they believe in or reject. To reject what’s used as a method of communication at various levels of understanding is quite silly. To be firm on what you ‘think’ is the correct way, is ‘self brainwashing’. ‘
Verbalization is how we avoid really living. The moment we verbalize ‘about’ a rose flower, or our feelings or emotions, we are no longer in touch with the reality of the flower, or our feelings. Instead, we are relating only to perceived unreal images in the mind. Life goes by without us. God is the major example of verbalization, in fact guessing that we can define him/her/them/they, etc. is to miss the ‘mark’ that verbalizing is just a futile attempt at understanding.
There are an infinite number of IDEAS of what the word “God” means, but one has to assume that most English-speaking people are using or speaking about the God of Abraham, the idea that Jews, Christians, and Muslims use. The IDEA of the God of Abraham was created to justify slavery and it works very well as all those who believe in this idea are essentially slaves to whoever claims to be an authority authorized by this God. This idea of God is supposed to be the creator and therefore ruler of the world, so those who identify as separate beings would perceive this God as responsible for all the “evil” that they experience, hence this God is the creator of evil. Thinking with intelligence doesn’t buy into this idea, and hence this is not a valid question for them.
One thing that seems hidden from the human mind is that we all see things at differing levels of understanding instead of viewing things in a ‘duality’ way of ‘it means this and not that’. We are conditioned collectively by so called ‘authorities’ to see things as ‘they say it is’. Religion is no exception, and that includes the word ‘God’. In a way, all verbalizations are ‘double entendre’ meaning that the interpretation can be meant in more than one way starting with the ‘initiator’ of words, and how others put their interpretation on them. My view is that it works for some to see a ‘holy book’, as in the Bible, literally. People are at different levels of seeing things and they choose, or perhaps automatically see words in the Bible as ‘multi-entendre’, or even to the point that the truth is beyond words and viewed more naturally in an ‘enlightened or superconscious way’.
