Musket: "Of course, God can be very real in your awareness. It just goes to show that our awareness is our own reality and not anybody else's. If your awareness is that there is an afterlife, then there is. For you. ...."

So, from your own words, you are not saying there is or isn't a 'God', as much as you are assailing 'awareness'...

Go back and re-read what you posted.
Actually, I tend to agree with you...'awareness' is a state of being...has nothing to do with the validity or reality of what a person is 'aware' or 'unaware' of.....and it is perfectly true..people have the ability to be 'aware' or 'unaware', stay 'unaware' and promote that view to anyone along the way.........UNTIL they experience something 'different' as to what being 'unaware' has left them.

Can't argue with that!

GfS