A deity based in mythology. Completely fictional.

God = I don't know, and don't care enough to put any effort into finding real answers.

Alternative meaning: I'm afraid of my own mortality and if I can convince myself that I won't die I won't ever have to face my fear.

Really, to me, it's a copout. Something to blame when things go badly, so the religious don't have to feel guilty, something to thank when things go well, so they can appear humble.

I use the natural, primary definition, which is taught in Rabbinic literature (My dad is half-aschkenazi jewish). It's a monotheistic amalgamation of pagan and abrahamic conceptions of God. If you want to know more on this defintion, read "The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion" by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.

a god is supreme or infallible within a field or practice. that's why i'm about to list a bunch of gods.

Jim Morrison
Robby Krieger
Ray Mazerek
John Densmore
Jimmy Page
Robert Plant
John Bonham
John Paul Jones
Jimi Hendrix
B.B King
Robert Johnson
David Draiman
Ozzy Osbourn
Paganini
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstien
Van Gogh

need i continue? get the point? these are gods in their own right. these are the epitome of style, class, adventure, hardships, prevailing through impossibile times. and like all gods, they are not accepted by everybody, however, they are appreciated and understood for the reasons they are called gods.

back in ancient greece, the people would treat emotions and actions as gods. they had gods of love, war, night, suspicion, life, death, trickery, lies, torture and even gods between gods like Hades who we would practically call the ferryman. if they can have all those gods in an attempt to understand where things originate from, then i think it is more reasonable to consider real people as gods. it's no different than worshipping a cow, a cat, a dog, a snake or a ram.

however, if someone were to assert a god which controls me, i would then start asking questions like "how do you know that". those people would not be able to answer me, but if they asked me that about the people i consider gods, i'd be capable of answering and proving why they are gods from my perspective.

the abrahamic religions were the only religions to assert an all knowing, all powerful god who is omniscient, without proof. it took thousands of failed religions and millions of dead and forgotten gods before they rolled them all into one neat package and created what we universally know today as "a god". however, respectfully, a god is merely a being who is just really really good at doing something. so my gods are in line with what a god should be capable of.

The term God is transliteral in the etymological sense. The Engish term God refers to the Hebrew/Hyksos/Jewish deity on one level of conscious perception. On another, God is the creator of all things. And yet still another and the most factual to the term "God" and the etymological roots and it's morphology. Simply put the term means Zeus without going into a bunch of historical linguistics and Catholicism. So your question is what is the definition of the term God. Simple..... An anthropromorphized societal construct created by a hierarchy of environmentally conscious beings who devised a manner for the conscious control of an ethic group of peoples as a means of maintaining and controlling social cognition in beings of lower mental status and civility.

Follow-up question: If indeed there is a 'god' or 'gods' are they all powerful, all knowing, good, just and merciful as what religions would have people believe? To be precise, do they know what's happening to us and do they care or are we just like fish pets in an aquarium. The assumption being used in this argument is that there are 'god', 'gods', 'superior beings' but we are just like pets to them that they hardly care.

It is god written in reverse.

Anything descibed as such by any of the well-known religions.

I'm my own god. I'm in charge of what I do right and wrong. I'm the one pulling the strings.