Suppose I believe that “god” is just the workings of the entire universe collectively, not supernatural but natural, not an old mean white guy with emotions and desires, but the sum total of existence and all the things that happen in it, not active personality in the world but passive non-personality, the system on which the entire universe is “emulated.”
Then I am grateful to a non-personality, but I suspect people in accidents are grateful to seat belts or airbags or whatever came between them and a hard object moving quickly at them.
And maybe it means I believe in “god,” but the “god” I believe in puts me more in common with atheists than with the religious.
Having enough belief in “god” to thank it (or feel like thanking it) doesn’t need to suggest the properties of the god(s) of the religious that are so valuable to reject.
What does it mean if I am grateful to “god” ?
Suppose I believe that “god” is just the workings of the entire universe collectively, not supernatural but natural, not an old mean white guy with emotions and desires, but the sum total of existence and all the things that happen in it, not active personality in the world but passive non-personality, the system on which the entire universe is “emulated.”
Then I am grateful to a non-personality, but I suspect people in accidents are grateful to seat belts or airbags or whatever came between them and a hard object moving quickly at them.
And maybe it means I believe in “god,” but the “god” I believe in puts me more in common with atheists than with the religious.
Having enough belief in “god” to thank it (or feel like thanking it) doesn’t need to suggest the properties of the god(s) of the religious that are so valuable to reject.