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God's a product of belief
Dear Farzana,
You say, "Belief in
a monotheistic god [is] akin to belief in a personal god."
I agree. However, from
your statement it is easy to see that "monotheistic god" and
"personal god" refer to the selfsame
metaphysical being, that Nameless Thing of a Thousand Names, which comes
into being only through the agency of belief.
Without the agency of
belief, God (He, She, or a gender-neutral deity) does not exist, down here
or up there, nor does He-She-It come into being anywhere in our cultural
stratospheres or in the universes and galaxies beyond our cosmos.
That is because belief
has nothing to do with our corporeal thinking about the spiritual reality
of a Grand Architect of the Universe.
Belief creates its own
reality, which may or may not be actually true just as the so-called
supreme reality of God may or may not be an actual fact.
Therein lies our dilemma, or paradox as it is known in
philosophy.
Perhaps we should now
sit back and let members of the Family of the Heart at large take this
discussion forward with our mutual friend Ziauddin Ahmed.
Rashid Mughal
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