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The Wrong Question

The question of whether "God exists" is actually a meaningless question, when you consider that we do not know what we mean exactly by the word "God," and the only concept we can possibly have of the word "exists" is entirely within a time-space continuum, that we are claiming this "God" not only preceded and created, but is also wholly independent of. 

To say God "exists" outside of all of what we can think of as "existence" itself,  is like saying I would still exist even if I did not exist. 

It is like trying to imagine what it would be like to "not exist," at least not within any sense of time or space. 

And as soon as we imagine anything like a God, we necessarily think of that God as inhabiting a time and a place, because we cannot imagine what it is like in the absence of either one, let alone both. 

 So the question is not "does God exist or not," since "God" is an infinitely abstract idea that can not "exist" in any sense that we can possibly imagine, but why people accept that either answer can be used by one person to oppress another.





  

 

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