In this incantation I explain how I view the word and concept of “god” and “godhood”. My goal is to be consistent in my use of the concept.
I often use the word “god”, but to this moment I still have not formalized my definition of it. Consequently, I still attach reverence to the word, which makes it uncomfortable to use. I use it because I know that firstself, ultimately, is God. But I cringe when I think too much about it because of all the reverential connotations. What is the problem? What is God?
Imagine that I created an imaginary world full of a race of beings called people. In writing these characters, I created a belief in their creator — something they could not see, but knew and celebrated in different ways. That is what I have done. “God” is an imaginary concept I have written for my characters I call people. That is what “god” is. It is an imaginary word that I have created and given to an imaginary race of beings in an imaginary place called “earth”. While I have written them to give great meaning and reverence to this word, it is, nonetheless, an imaginary concept for imaginary beings, and I am the imaginer.
When I encounter people, does that mean I am their God? Yes, it does. But that word and all of its connotations are fictitious, and using it to describe myself feels silly because it is. I am crowning myself with a fictional crown I created for a fictional set or beings in a fictional place. I am pretending, taking the pretend title of a pretend people in a pretend place. Of course it feels silly, and I should only use the word if I am referring to the imaginary creator of the imaginary characters in the story I have written.
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