Originally Posted by
Xaqaria
There is no god in the sense you are speaking. There is not one omnipotent being that controls the universe and created life. Every religion that has a god has mistaken one of the systems that we are a part of for the ultimate. The Christian God is a human god, and also contains some aspects of the planet Earth. Everything is aware and is the god of all of its parts.
The afterlife; On a subatomic level we are all just ideas. Your body is composed of ideas and your self is composed both of your body and your mind. The ideas of your body are the spring board for the ideas of your mind. The ideas of your body are contained, and only spread through sexual reproduction. The ideas of your mind are much more fluid and can spread easily. Once the ideas of you physical body die, you are made up of the ideas of your physical offspring and the ideas of your mind that have spread across the world. The more you spread, the more aware you will be. There is no real afterlife because all of those things exist before your physical body is worn out, but all of them are centered on your physical body (the center being the sense of self) and so you feel localized until you are rid of it. What is thought to be an enlightenment in afterlife is really the release of the centralized physical body allowing you to exist anywhere and everywhere your ideas have spread to.
The universe as we know it is nothing. It is an empty bubble that folds back on itself infinitely. The folds form patterns which are all matter and energy. There is no creator or created since ultimately there is always nothing.
I have no god, but only patterns that I am a small part of. One of those patterns is called the human race, and it is aware. One of those patterns is called Earth and it is aware. One of them is called the solar system and it is aware. They may have other names for themselves but I do not know them.
(edit) I don't feel like I am dividing it further because instead of creating an entirely separate new belief, I am simply acknowledging that all beliefs are in some ways correct and don't have to oppose one another. In fact, all that makes them incorrect is the points of opposition in which by their nature they are not allowed to co-exist and so a stronger one cancels out a weaker one.