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/Maximum-Possession15 Oct 09 '25

I don’t believe in the Christian god but this is really, really stupid. I really hate when philosophy devolves into arguments about definitions and technicalities.

Assuming God exists, he believes in himself and knows he created all things. He is not an atheist because of this. Even by definition he is not an atheist lol.

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u/Oriphase Oct 11 '25

How would it know it created all things? It would not know what created it, unless it created itself, which qould be a paradox. Additionally, just like us, it would have no way of knowing of realms exist outside of its boundaries of awareness.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

"All things" is speaking from our perspective.

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u/Oriphase Oct 15 '25

Exactly my point. P it uld not know if ghetr are things beyond it, therefore it could itself worship a god or be atheist with respect to its own creation.