My attempt at writing down my spiritual beliefs in a way that makes sense, here goes!
I found a thread in the Pit asking what everyone's belief in God was if they had one. I copied the bulk of this post from what I said there.
Do I believe in God? I always answer no to this, because anything else would be misleading. I don't believe in any kind of creator or omnipotent watcher. I don't believe in any afterlife or divine rulebook. But I don't believe that everything in this world is based on measurable science, either. I do believe in some kind of higher power, which I'll call God for the
sake of convenience, but I don't view it as a single entity or deity of
any kind. What it boils down to is that certain facets of our own individual consciousness
- our sense of right and wrong, our aspirations and dreams, our
individuality - form that higher power.
In a sense, we contain God
within ourselves as a facet of ourselves, as opposed to an external
force. At the end of the day, religious zealots and atheists alike try
to satisfy their goals to satisfy these impulses - their own sense of
what is right and what is wrong. The exact tenets of everyone's
morality differ on a few things, but the key is that at the end of the
day the source of our satisfaction is internal. Put more clearly but
less accurately, we are our each our own God, and dictate our own lives.
The closest descriptor I've come up with is a kind of spiritual
atheism.
