Reply #61: Maybe the next step

[ozone_man]

beyond not attempting to define God is abandoning the concept of God altogether. I think there is such a thing as spirituality, but to connect it to God, whatever God is, seems to be attributing a source for spirituality developed before the Age of Reason and development of Scientific Method. The invention of God was a way of explaining the unknowns in life, afterlife, creation, but in the modern era, we can start to move beyond founding our spirituality on the concept of God. We all have inner light, but is it God, or just us? The Quakers are most of the way there, but it would seem the final step is to remove the concept of God and replace it with us, our own consciousness. Maybe this is what some types of Buddhism or Taoism do.

"Quaker theology doesn't even attempt to define God in human terms but simply accepts that God, whatever he, she, or it is, simply exists on his, her, or its own terms. We think more about the Light, which is the temporal existence of God in all of us."

I like this quote that seems to say the same thing in a humorous way.

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
- Peter O'Toole