The Desk.

My problem isn't with God, it's with the Church. I've been throwing around the term atheist rather loosely lately. I do that because it is the most effective terminology due to its dramatic denotation. I stand by everything I said about atheism, but perhaps it would be more precise to refer to myself as an existentialist. Let me put it this way: I don't not believe in God. First we must define what it means to believe in something. I believe it exists, yes, but only because man created it. God cannot and would not exist without believers. It's all in your head. Excuse me while a make a parallel between religion and mental illness. The schizophrenic mind is overloaded with dopamine, and that increases the perception of the senses, creating hallucinations. Within the mind of the patient, those hallucinations are as real if not moreso than reality. Similarly, a spiritual belief creates a situation which, to the believer, is one and the same as reality. Who's to say what's real and what isn't. What I perceive in my reality may be different from yours. But what exists in the mind is the only reality. Therefore, to believe in God makes it real, and to deny it makes it not exist. God can be ultimately powerful, if you claim that it is the motivating force of your actions. In that sense, God exists and is whatever you say it is. But I say that it is my fellow man which motivates the goings-on of the world. I suppose you could interpret that as saying that in my world, man is the God. I am man, therefore I am God.