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The Faceless Face of God:   

When you ask, "Do you believe in God?"  
Are you are talking about the source of all creation -- a source and a consciousness that transcends human understanding? 

If you are talking about the sum total of all that is --  the ever-flowing essence of everything --  the central cause of all creation,  from the minutest to the greatest -- the source of everything we are and everything we experience,

If you are talking about "An Infinite Source"  who/which/that  has created a set of invisible laws° --  laws that are as immutable as the law of gravity, laws that we each can intentionally use to create our own personal experiences (or ignore at our own peril),

If you are talking about a "God" that is unknown and unknowable -- a God that expresses itself in a mysterious form of consciousness-- a "God" that expresses itself as freedom, love, joy, and beauty -- a god that manifests itself as the sum total of everything we are aware of in what we call the physical universe --  a God that we are each an intimate part of --  a God which is that mysterious part of ourselves we refer to when we say "I' of "me,"  

If that's your definition of God, then the answer is "DEFINITELY YES,  I DO BELIEVE IN GOD!"

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. . . And a Little Common Sense:  

Perhaps the real question is not about in what form the source of creation is or isn't.   Perhaps the real questions are: '  

     Is the consciousness we refer to as "I" or "me" 
a function of the physical body,    or 

     Is the physical body a function of consciousness?    

     Are you inside and part of God or are you outside and separate from God? '     

Imagining God as :

a fickle, angry, jealous, vengeful, intolerant, 
displeased, needy, and violent super-human being 
sitting on a cloud somewhere 

is at best, an archaic and dysfunctional perspective of the source of the universe and everything in it.   It doesn't take an atheist to reject that perspective.   All it takes is:  

     A willingness to look the physical evidence  -- Readers are directed to:  "What the Bleep Do We Know"   and "Down the Rabbit Hole." ***1`

   A willingness to question the stories you accepted as real° when you were a defenseless little child,  and 

     A little common sense.   

Regardless of what we believe or want to believe, the Universe has a source, a cause of of its creation.   Our ancient, superstitious ancestors did not give us the correct answers to the dozens of questions that so many people no longer ask.°  

Atheism Re-defined

Atheism -- What it Isn't:   Many of those who say they are atheists have not thoroughly analyzed  the issue  other than to say that they reject the traditional, Christian definition of a weird, bizarre superhuman being separate from His creation (described above as The False Face of God).    Simply rejecting such a definition of God  is not atheism. 

Real atheism is based upon a belief that consciousness is a function of the physical body and that one's consciousness dies with the death of the body.   Such a belief does not standup when  tested against the evidence.  

Science can find no evidence whatsoever that indicates that consciousness is in any way a part of the human, physical structure.   Millions of people have had personal experience that have taken them outside their bodies.   Over the centuries, hundreds of thousands of people have been able to leave the physical body at will.   Hundreds of thousands of people have been able to see into a realm of reality that is invisible to the rest of us.   Hundreds of thousands of people have been able to hear sounds, and carry on intelligent conversations with beings in realm of reality that the rest of us do not have access to.  Famous inventors, master musicians, Nobel Prize winning scientists have all brought wonders to us from that part of reality the skeptics say is merely one's imagination.  

Imagination Is all there Is !

Skeptics say that all this non-physical stuff  is just a person's imagination.   Well,  they are obviously correct, but what the skeptics ignore is the evidence which indicates that physical matter is not real --  that everything is energy -- the energy is controlled by consciousness --  that imagination is the core of consciousness.  

One simply cannot use physical evidence to prove or disprove the existence of something that is not physical.   Atheism is simply another religion in which believers  reject the existence of God  the same way religious true believers accept the existence of an Anthropomorphic God  --  by a Leap of Faith '

The bottom  line is:  Regardless of what you or I believe, the Universe had a source.   What that Source is, what nature of  that Source is,  and how He/She/It functions are still  the worlds greatest mysteries

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Here are two quotes from Albert Einstein:  

   "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.   That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

    “Imagination is greater than knowledge.”  

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