“I don’t believe in God, but I definitely believe in the Universe” has somehow become an unironic sentence a lot of people frequently say now?
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“I just think like the word ‘god’ needs like a rebrand and universe sounds kinda like sexy and mysterious tbh… and everyone says it at burning man!”
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Need to decouple all the religious twaddle from the concept of a creator. The big daddy “God” of monotheistic religion is bs, but the idea that we have a creator or creators of some sort (panspermia? simulation? etc. etc.) isn’t unreasonable.
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I can see the points here, but maybe people just don't know how to encapsulate the concept. For me, the idea of god is either too specific so it can be disproven, or so vague that it's indistinguishable from existence and the laws of physics.
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its more of a just a way to hold principles without needing all the baggage of a religion. If you don't believe in a higher being, there's no logical reason to be morally good. But if you want to be morally good, you could claim "the Universe" would bring karma.
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That way you can justify good behavior to yourself without needing to submit to the specifics of the Bible, or the Quran, or any other religious text/tradition. Because without an outside justification, you *should* just maximize your own utility constantly, to the detriment of
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