I see and hear this a lot from folks.
"I personally have not concluded there is no creator out there just that religion is not of divine origin so I continue to seek answers."
This equates Creator to Deity
Yet it utterly fails to define what the heck that creator is.

If a human creates a painting, they are the creator of it.
They are not defined by their work, you do not call them "Creator", as if that has some special meaning.
if I ask "How did this come to be", someone would respond "so and so painted it"

BUT with God, people use a differing standard. They ASSUME creation, which then requires a Creator, and since the Creation (all that ever is or was) is so immense, it therefore MUST be God.

But God is never defined.

WTF is God?

@Davesnothere See that is where I disagree with most others. Creator should NOT equate deity. I absolutely agree with your definition of creator so if one were to ask me what I personally thought a creator looked like it would be more like a mad scientist that stumbled onto the creation of life but not perfect or all knowing, not even necessarily interested in the created and possibly even hostile towards us much like an artist that discards their painting. Not everyone believes a creator means deity or something worth worshiping and equating creator with deity (all knowing, total power...) IS the mistake. I could definitely see us creating a new type of human in a petri dish and sending them to Mars which would make us their creators so that is the definition I play around with. I think each of us has our own unique belief system so asking someone what creator means to them would probably help clarify where the individual is coming from since I did not equate creator with deity yet you assumed I had.

@CreativelyMe " I absolutely agree with your definition of creator"
Odd, I did not give one, nor do I have one.

I did not assume that, it is implied in your first post by the use of that term "Creator", long adopted by the Christians as just another term for God. "I personally have not concluded there is no creator out there just that religion is not of divine origin"

This implies a lot more than some Alien geneticaly engineering Humans, for which there is also zero evidence.

What I find far more facinating is why you assume the natural world "Created" to begin with, like a painting, an artificial constuct created by something else.

@Davesnothere I do not assume it was created and my words should make that pretty evident. I assume it is a distinct possibility that we were created, how is that an assumption?. I have made no assumptions or conclusions and if you reread your comments you did define creator as a painter. I was not referring to an ultimate creator only the definition YOU used for creator.

@Davesnothere Using the term "creator" should not equate my belief with Christians simply because it is a term THEY use to equate GOD with. Should I also avoid words like light because Christians equate it to Christ? So they coined the term and since I used it then I meant God because of it? That is rather rigid and narrow minded thinking in my opinion. Creator means to bring something new into existence and to assume it means more based solely on who used it most is absolutely ridiculous. My words make it very clear I was not speaking of the Christian God so please do not put your assumptions onto me. I use whatever words I choose to whether or not Christians use them to mean something different than I do.

@clarkems I like what you shared. I see no reason not to go to a church. I have attended all types of different religious events and see no reason not to offer support for the aspects I do like and question the teachings I disagree with. More people are open to my disbelief in religion once they realize that I explore them all without judgment against the people. My mother once asked me why I hate Mormons and I told her I don't I hate organized religion not the individuals that have been deceived by it. I believe that a lot of the practices churches initiate should be adopted by non-believing humans, just not enforced at the threat of being exiled from our communities. There are a lot of really good teachings, philosophies and practices that I have learned from going to other peoples churches and how better to get people to accept our ideas than to accept theirs?

@clarkems "When I think of a creator it is an entity we cannot understand that lives across multiple times and dimensions, playing with new dimensions and twirling black holes into existence like a kid playing in the mud."
But why would you give that any more credability than Moby Dick or the Easter Bunny? It is certainly more fantastic.

@clarkems, @CreativelyMe You cannot escape the overarching cultural motif. If you use the term Creator in a Judeo Christian society it will carry those connotatons whether you wanted that or not. You would have to be very specific about it, and then the term would not have the same usefulness.

"So they coined the term and since I used it then I meant God because of it?"
It is a cultural notion, maybe in a few hundred years you could, but there are many words you cannot use without baggage. The N word comes to mind, as do ALL the terms annexed by religion Faith, Spirit, God, Creator and so forth, they have baggage. Just because YOu do not intend that baggage does not make it simply vanish.

" Creator means to bring something new into existence and to assume it means more based solely on who used it"
I did not base it on WHO used the term
I based it on HOW you used it
"I personally have not concluded there is no creator out there just that religion is not of divine origin so I continue to seek answers."
This implies there might be some Creator out there
Which implies that reality is artificial, a Creation by some unknown entity.

To me, this is not anything but what I call entrenched thinking. Something I struggled with for years, and something I see people struggle with when exiting religion, often for many years because we become acustomed to using Religious language with all that baggage without thinking about what it infers or implies.
I think it makes it much harder when talking to others, especially believers, when your expressing that you do not believe, when you use these terms. It confuses them, and they almost always see it drenched in their religion, as does the overarching society.

@Akfishlady l'm not always good at that respectful part. ?

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