I call it God because God is a term. It is a term we use in the Anglosphere. It is the most widely understood term. We don't use Brahman, Ishvar/Ishwar, and so on, for the most part.
I feel God is more of a useful term for me. Not only because I live in an English-speaking country, but because...
My religion is a part of who I am. I never not-me.
If one establishes prayer as the foundation of one's religion or religious beliefs, though, then I would barely ever be me. Prayer is one of the things I struggle with in my spiritual growth, especially spontaneous (or non-liturgical, if one...
Neutral. I often quite like it, but it's not for me personally. I just can't, you know, accept it.
Though I suppose as I believe in "one God in many aspects [Shiva, Durga, Waheguru, etc all as cultural anthromorphic manifestations of the One]", I border close to soft polytheist according to...
Personally, I chose yes. I find it lazy and annoying, but that's just me speaking.
It's also usually used by people who could cut themselves on their edge, so even when I see it as someone who's not use it, I still find it odd. :p
I'm... all over the place. :p I call myself a panentheist. That encompasses it quite well.
I have a soft spot for: Sikhism, Hinduism, Christianity (esp Quakers), Sufism, Judaism, Taoism, (Religious) Confucianism, certain forms of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism (Fourth Turning of the Wheel...
Good question. I think they're more-or-less the same?
I did a quick Google search and I can't find anything major that differentiates between them. Maybe someone else will know better than I. :)
Yes but not quite how people see it. Special snowflake answer here. :p
I believe in a sort of karma as an inevitability in some ways, with mystical udnertones, I guess.
But no reincarnation or rebirth.
Hey, I said special snowflake. :D
Yep. Although the way some interpret God, gods, etc, I'd say no - not according to the limited definition of "god" many have.
But I don't have one so narrow.
Couldn't you interact/find it in some observable way if it was just invisible as opposed to formless?
Doesn't invisibleness require physicality? Or am I requiring that when it's not necessary?
And if not, what would be the difference between formlessness and invisibleness?
That's difficult to explain, really, without using flowery language and being all vague and pretentious about it, which isn't really what I want to do, but the short is that I believe that life does not end after death, not by any stretch of the imagination.
So... yeah. What else is there? The...