Question

In my opinion, the obsessive preoccupation with figuring out whether there is a God or not (I come from a Haredi background, with some degree of intellectual openness, so in my view I write “God” in this altered way) stems from equating God with a human being. If I speak to a friend standing 5 meters away from me, I know that within those 5 meters there is nothing hearing me, and when I look carefully I see that after those 5 meters there is a person standing there hearing what I say to him. But in the cosmos, there are similarities between the system and a human being, like 75 percent water in the body—75 percent dark matter and dark energy, a hundred billion neurons in the brain, a hundred billion galaxies. They even found certain galaxies shaped like a face and like a human being. There are energies that friends feel from afar, and there is some kind of spiritual dimension (you could call it something subtler) in creation, and that is what one turns to and relates to when contemplating the system. The whole discussion of the question of God’s existence is really the question whether, thousands of kilometers up above, the Throne of Glory is empty or whether someone is sitting on it. That is an anthropomorphic imagination that can occupy and intrigue people—whether someone is sitting there or not—but it is not at all the same idea. What do you think?