I recently got criticized by my Catholic friend
@Hayley Bartlett about how I view God. According to her, God doesn't do anything in the realm of theologies I practice.
Which is funny, because where I put God is everything, everywhere, and not just what matter is but what it does too. Every day I wake up and I experience fractals of God, I am in awe for the fact that we understand so much, yet so little about reality. I believe in things like evolution, the fact that Earth is billions of years old, and that God did not create the Universe in seven days. But rather, what is more remarkable about it is that the Universe has been in existence for billions of years, rather than thousands, and we just happen to be so lucky and fortunate to be on a planet that can help us survive and possibly thrive on others.
That to me is more spiritual, more awe-inspiring, than the average Catholic waiting death to be reunited with Jesus. And yes, I actually believe that will happen one day too, but not exactly the way they imagine it. Science helps us understand the world so engineering and technology can change it. If there were ever a chance we could bring these people back to life and restore sanity to them one day, they would realize that what nature is becoming is far greater than the deepest depths of Heaven could offer. And then, it wouldn't be so bad for them.
So where do I put God? God to me means everything. Everything and every single action. Every act is somehow tied to either some form of chaos and order, entropy and extropy, and the whole of the Universe is capable of just about anything if we could intelligentially design it ourselves. The fact that some people can believe in God and others don't or cant is amazing because every single point of view is slowly being represented in this new age of the Internet and technology.
We couldn't imagine a world like this even a hundred years ago and we won't be able to truly imagine the world and what happens to it a hundred years from now. That is the reason why I firmly believe that God itself is change, and no change can happen without a being and an action. To sum up my entire argument in the simplest fashion, I will direct you to my signature.
"God is what nature is becoming."
That is what God means to me. That is where I put God. It is a continuation of everything in the past, what is happening now, and what will continue to occur in the future, and it's also nature: the innate forces of it, and the careful designed evolution of our species as well. To say that God doesn't mean anything to me, or that my God doesn't do anything, just because I reject the idea of sin or a God that looks down on us, is completely missing the picture of what divinity means to me.
Yes, one day humans will create a monotheistic God in this panendeistic reality, that's what syntheists believe, and that we're also creating divinity in ourselves, but by no means will that God count your sins and pick specials or favorites out of all of us. We are all an elaborate byproduct of nature and we are no less than miraculous, no matter what each individual can do. Any less and you are starting to miss my point entirely.