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Message:: [QUOTE="ewomack, post: 4029428, member: 15588"]Spinoza used God in a very interesting way: "Deus sive Natura" or "God or Nature." He conceived of God as an ineffable power, a force that encompasses everything, that creates everything and to which all causal chains ultimately trace back. There is nothing anthropomorphic about this concept, in fact, it's mostly a mystery, something our puny human brains can only conceive of in part, at best. Einstein supposedly said "I believe in Spinoza's God" and I think that I might, too. I honestly don't know what to believe about anything anymore, but I want to believe in people more than anything else. I would love it if the motto said "In People we Trust," which would reflect Lincoln's "Of the People, By the People, For the People." I don't want to judge people by what they believe, because people often believe in things for shabby reasons and confirmation bias usually plays a huge role. I would rather judge people by how they treat other people, especially those that they don't agree with. That really matters in the end. So I'm all for changing it to "In People we Trust." Maybe if we say it enough it will come true?[/QUOTE]