Quote Originally Posted by O'nus View Post
There is no need, it is an arbitrary definition of God.
Yes, it’s arbitrary, but it’s not without consequence. You could just as easily say “there is no God, there is only energy”. By declaring that energy to be ‘God’ you have chosen to count yourself among the ‘believers’. You have aligned yourself with people who believe in all sorts of superstitions and myths at the expense of rational thought.

Quote Originally Posted by O'nus View Post
I professed that, if anything, the morality attached to this God would be the flourishing of energy within us all. Tell me, how is that anti-humanistic?
It’s not. I am saying that religion is not necessary for humanistic action, and that religion, despite a humanistic component, leads to all kinds of things that are anti-humanistic, such as war, ignorance, xenophobia, voting Republican and all manner of self destruction.