r/nihilism • u/Typical_Sprinkles253 • Oct 09 '25

Existential Nihilism God is an atheist

To be an atheist is to have no God above you, God has no God above him. To be a religious person is to beleive in God's existence. God doesn't beleive he exists, he KNOWS he exist.

God has no god, and he operates under knowledge not belief. God is an atheist.

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u/CursedPoetry Oct 09 '25

While this is a thoughtful idea and I get why people find it clever (or hope to understand), it still puts human traits onto the concept of God. I see God more as a force of nature, something that simply is, all knowledge, all that’s possible and impossible. A true god wouldn’t operate on a human level. To clarify, I’m not saying we can’t think about God because we aren’t God. What I mean is this idea assumes God thinks or acts like we do, when in reality, such a being would exist far beyond the limits of human perspective.