Phyllo,
Precisely and so people tend to build up their own personal matrixes, a matter of their own choice, despite what cannot be seen and despite how discombobulated our minds may be at the thought of this idea/ideal, except for those who DO live in the matrix.
I can agree with this in part. This is a deist’s thinking and I find it to be more rational than that of the theist’s thinking; to wit, that the God who exists (for lack of a better word) is lovingly aware, compassionate, empathetic, ad continuum…
Perhaps the very first thing that needs to be done is to drop the gender identity.
We do this even with non-gender things, like ships, cars, ad continuum.
I suppose that it may be because we need to sense or to have some form of intimate relationship with a God or even with our things (the reason we are so attached to them) although we can never really know if our so-called relationship with a personal God is “real” except through our choice to make it so. (the matrix again),
We are all basically sucklings in some form or other.
Perhaps the problem is with the word “God”. Maybe that too ought to be dropped though I have no idea what to put in its stead.
Your keyword is “may”. Can we prove, really, that the theists or the deists or the atheists are correct or incorrect?
I do not think so in light of all of the variables that can be seen.
I think that all we can say is “maybe” or “perhaps” or “possibly”. But what do we do? We simplify it by making a judgment call, the one which best suits our purposes/agendas and allows us a sense of security.
A child on her way to school is run down by a drunkard. The child dies but the drunkard lives.
Too many unanswered questions.
A bit of serendipity, a bit of synchronicity, a bit of magic in the world.
As I said, we are all sucklings, in some form or other.
Personally, I do not think that we will ever get to the bottom of the God question.