"Little Hawk, I was dividing up the possibilities; do you mean to deny the possibility of their being no gods?" - Mrrzy

It's not exactly that I deny the possibility, Mrrzy. It's just that I simply can't relate to it. It makes utterly no sense to me.

Keep in mind that I am not saying that because I belong to any particular religion. I don't. I'm saying it because there are two ways of looking at the Universe and life itself:

1. It all happened through an intelligent, purposeful process
2. It all happened completely by accident

I simply cannot relate to the idea that it all happened by accident. I see evidence of a powerful intelligence at work in the structure and function of things, specially living things, right down to the atomic level. I think the term "God" is one way that people have of attempting to name that indwelling intelligence. People do love to name things... ;-)

But it wouldn't matter what they called it. The indwelling intelligence that is in you...and which gives you the free will and power to decide that there IS or IS NOT any God....is God, in my opinion. (It's part of God, it's an extension of the entire functioning intelligence that is God. That same intelligence is in plants and animals and micro-organisms, I think, but to varying degrees in each case...as far as how powerfully it expresses itself.)

This "God" I speak of is totally beyond the scope or awareness of most conventionally religious people, because they have chosen to focus usually on a set of books, a prophet, a church, some body of teachings which came out of the culture around them. As such, they're focusing on a very small fragment of the whole, and it's limited to the culture they know...on the planet they know.

That's like a grain of sand in the cosmos.

I don't believe that I can define or express what God is. I don't believe anyone can. But it can be interesting trying to express it...