My girlfriend went to a small gathering of spiritual-minded folks last night, and when she came back she asked me, “What do you do when people say ‘God’?”
What followed was, typical of me, a long and rambling discourse that mostly left both of us confused. I could boil it down to this, though: depending on the context and speaker, when someone says “God” to me, I either:
A) do nothing, because there’s nothing for me to do,
B) translate their “God” into my “God” or some allegorical Being,
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C) get a little defensive. Continue reading “What do You do When People Say “God”?”