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So if God only exists within our minds.
How does that jive with this simplistic notion that god does not exist at all,
What’s it actually mean?
The definition of “exist” entails more than being a figment of the imagination.
Existence
Existence is the ability of an entity to interact with reality. In philosophy, it refers to the ontological property of being. Wikipedia
Why have people spent infinite time and treasure discussing “God” - … arguing over “God” - … fighting and killing over “God”
Because in spite of our extraordinary brains, on the evolutionary scale we are barely out of the jungle.
This is because the human brain is not a result of a slow evolutionary process but a sudden major chromosomal mutation.
You say that I come up with these speculative ideas, but if you examine the “diverse” evidence I cite you’ll see that all of it makes perfect logical sense to the exclusion of much more complicated and lofty “flights of fancy”.