thedope goes for god, but doesn't want god a person. Anaximenes is anxious about anxiety? I believe in the individual, despite none of us having yet overcome our anonymity. :-D
I didn't mean as one and the same, but that also can be done imo. I don't see a problem with that except maybe if I would insist everyone believes the same thing as me (which I would never). Any invoked power that can be considered God or godly as that is what this thread is about.
if a god, were a thing, that could only exist, if it absolutely had to, then the op would be perfectly within reason to surmise, that no such thing possibly could. but that's not what a god is. a god is something, perfectly capable of existing, for no better reason, then were it, to bloody damd well, feel like doing so. it is also not a thing, who's existence depends in any way, upon bearing the slightest resemblance, to anything, anyone, other then itself, claims to know about it. (and IT, ain't saying. only humans are.)
God is an Essent about the Being of nothing which is the pure Existence of the World. After I die there is no world; how come?
I supose the best thing about existentialism is that scientist don't kill each other when they disagree. Not Yet at any rate.
How come an entity capable of supposedly creating the universe & everything thing in it, has to make people all speak a different language in order to stop them building a tower to heaven? Jeeze, if it had been me I'd have just zapped the tower and made if fall down. Then we'd all be speaking the same language today ... what a pleasure!