Sometimes we don't believe in God, but we believe in certain other people, and because those people believe in God, we believe in God too in a kind of proxy way.
'He can see things — strange things.' Shelly leaned close to me and whispered, 'Rosa tells me that Benni can see a little bit of God's hidden life.'
'Does God have a hidden life?' I asked.
Shelly snorted. 'George, where is your head? Everything that lives has a hidden life!'
'But you told me once you don't believe in God.'
'That's true. But I believe in Rosa!'
'So what does Rosa think that God does in his hidden life?' I asked.
'I have no idea,' he said with a shrug.
— Richard Zimler. The Incandescent Threads. Parthian, 2022.
"Jewish tradition calls this reality God, but that word is so heavy with question and misconception that I have mostly avoided using it. I am far more concerned about the nature of the encounter than I am about the term we use for its referent."
— Eugene B. Borowitz. Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew. (1991) Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. p. 114.
"An agnostic?" Barbara asked. "Isn't that someone who doesn't believe God can be understood?"
"Almost," said Bloomer. "What I think Ira's saying is that he's not even sure enough to be sure he can't know something. Ergo, he's not an agnostic."
— John R. Maxim. Platforms. New York: Avon Books, 2002.
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