God Is A Metaphor
God exists, but only as a metaphor. God simply means - I don’t know. In all the years that I have participated in or watched debates, often god boils down to what fills the voids in our knowledge. God is the sum-total of our collective ignorance. Why is there love? Can you explain love? Why is there life? Can you explain love? Why is there something instead of nothing? We all must be wishing we have all the answers. But we are still far from getting the answers unequivocally crisp. We are all blind men describing the proverbial Truth Elephant. The elephant is gigantic and a challenging one indeed.
I believe that reality - the Truth Elephant - is objective and that we perceive this objective world with subjective senses and fallible intellect. The idea of an objective world - subjective perception has been there for more than two thousand years. With this principle as guide, I make the most sense of what the world is to the extent only of my own short life experience. I believe our knowledge of reality is nothing compared to the amount of world-data that our brain has to possess and process in order to be able to synthesize all our ideas and arrive at a complete description of the One Whole Truth. Reality is a continuous unraveling. I think that if ignorance can be quantified, the value will be astounding compared to our current knowledge also quantified. This vast amount of ignorance set against the iota of knowledge we now possess is what makes the god idea thrive after thousands of years of changing shapes and colors. The idea of god feeds on our ignorance. As we discover new knowledge, pieces of the puzzle, a puzzle with infinite number of pieces, fall into place to form rough pictures, and knowledge frontiers pushed outward. It seems that there is an unlimited amount of space and time that the frontiers of knowledge can be pushed outwards such that there will always be an ocean of ignorance that stretches far beyond. This is the ocean of ignorance where god can be found. This is the ocean of ignorance that god represents.
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