The mental concept of ‘God’ is inevitably limited to anthropomorphism in which the highest reality is more human than transcendent. But the great minds throughout human history did not conceive of a God that was anthropomorphic.
We ourselves occasionally get glimpses of this reality but these glimpses are far and few between because we are located in a world of illusion in which our self is not itself but other than itself (anātman). We have the sense of wanting to move to a higher reality, but never seem to arrive. And if we imagine we have arrived it often turns out to be a delusion if not delusions of grandeur.
In light of these problems, which seem intractable at times, we have an odd hunch that we're going in a kind of bad circle, around and around, and getting no place. Maybe this is the pattern of samsara.
With such a pattern, the atheistic mindset of denial can only pertain to mankind’s habit of inventing all too human Gods who cater to mankind's daily needs but only serve the purpose of keeping mankind in a circle. This is what precisely atheism really intends: thou shall not have any all too human Gods before me. However, the atheist cannot deny a base reality which is beyond man. To do so it's going too far. One, however, can say the base reality (superposition?) is transcendent after fully merging with this reality.
Each human being's secret dream is to go beyond the merely human. We are kind of like a ladder which is intended to take us beyond ourselves. Still the great majority of us still fear to go too high.
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