Q: “CURT, DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?”
I choose to believe in god. I talk to god all the time. I do not adhere to any given concept of god. I do not claim to understand anything about that god or make any claims about god. I do not need to.
If you have faith in god, then you need not defend or justify that faith – if you must defend or justify that faith, it means you don’t have faith. But instead, you need the validation of others that you’re right and not wrong because you feel weak and incompetent and uncertain otherwise. Or you need god and religion as a crutch for the inability to understand yourself, life, and the universe.
I don’t feel weak and incompetent. And I can understand the universe. I do not need to frame the universe as god or construction of god, as it would require I hold the pretense of understanding I cannot and do not have, or was weak, incompetent, insecure, and unable to understand the universe as it is.
As such my concept of god is more of an advisor with knowledge and designs I lack, as a voice of wisdom and counsel within the universe, and possibly an artifact of the collective minds of man, and nothing more.
