Part 1

What is God?

God is the thing we believe in to answer the unknown. The origins of our existance, even if explainable by science, will always lack an answer for why we exist. That is the eternal reason for God's existance.

God is neither good or bad. The use of people's ignorance to further one's own goals is bad. To use the belief in God to keep people from knowledge is bad. To use the belief in God to present yourself as God is bad.

Believing in God to pull on forces beyond your control to improve your situation and calm yourself is good. That is why we pray. We feel that God, having unknown powers, can hear us and help us with what we can not control.

I believe in God and nobody doesn't. One can ignorantly not know of God by not knowing there is the unknown. An illiterate doesn't know how to read if they've never learned of what a book or writing is.

Most animals don't represent the unknown by a figure, but by emotional responses. People do this as well. When a single eye can be seen in the distance of a forest, a grazing animal will not know what it is. However, it will respond with either curiosity or fear. The emotional response is the same for people. Some fear the dark, as one doesn't know what is in the dark.

The unknown, God, is not good or bad. It just is. Does this mean the powers that can influence our existance don't exist? They could very well exist, they are just unknown to our use. It could very well be that a being more powerful than us can hear us, and control that unknown power and respond to us. That is what the belief in religion is: the believe we can interact with the unknown. The forces in play are within our control if we make ourselves capable of using it, and we try to extend ourselves to the unknown in that manner.

We apply the force of God behind what we believe people should behave like as God, the unknown, can't be challenged as it is beyond our control. That will be Part 2.