God as a placeholder

[China Cat Sunflower]

I guess I've said before that I don't find the term God very useful. I do think that it serves as a placeholder, particularly in conversation. What if God really is an all pervasive, impersonal force? Is it still God? Maybe in the real sense, but not insofar as the labeling of things that gives language the ability and authority to tag and transfer things. Since the consensus of custom as it relates to the marker God is so heavily weighted toward the "old man in the sky" conception, I would rather, for the sake of clarity, reserve that term to the classical monotheistic expression. Let God be the dude from the Bible. Let the Force, or whatever it is, be something different. That way when a person says they believe, or don't believe in "God" it actually means something.

Chris