…it’s the god of nature. Whatever gives life is god.”
That’s just watering down the characteristics of the god you believe in until it means nothing. “Whatever it is that gives life”?
I, too, am immensely grateful to whatever it is that gives life. I don’t care what that is: it could be a one-off, totally blind bit of pure chance. It could be your god, or your god ,or your god <pointing around>. I will always and for as long as I’m aware be grateful to whatever it is that gave me this chance to live. That’s a debt no one can repay.
So on that we agree. I just don’t see any need to personify whatever that thing is.
Considering our place in the overall scheme of things in the universe, it should be obvious we don’t rate very high in “important impact”. A comet has more significance to the universe than we do. For that reason a human-like god is unlikely to the point of absurdity. No less silly than believing that the ultimate creator and god is a tree, a wombat. Life as we understand it is so rare in the known universe that our influence on reality is less than minuscule. It’s the height of pride to think that anything we do, anything we say, anything we believe, matters one iota beyond the bounds of this one single planet. Prove me wrong.
Show me the influence of humankind anywhere in the universe beyond this planet, what impact have we had on anything anywhere else in the universe.
