https://www.redressonline.com/2020/09/ive-seen-god-but-he-isnt-what-you-think/

Don’t get excited, I haven’t seen anybody. But there’s a thought that nags at me every time someone asks me whether or not I believe in God or every time I read something about the debate between believers and atheists.

Although I’ve never been a practising Muslim, I am also reluctant to say that I am an atheist. In my opinion, to be an atheist one has to be able to demonstrate with certainty that there’s no super entity out there.

No one has ever seen or heard from a super entity (or any other entity for that matter), but how can one actually prove there is nothing? Seeing, hearing, smelling and tasting nothing does not necessarily mean there is nothing.

For example, radio waves have always existed but no one knew they were there until they were discovered in the second half of the 19th century. Even today, if one were not told about radio waves or radio tuners (radio sets) that enable you to listen to human voices transmitted across the electromagnetic spectrum from near and afar, one would never know they were there. So, in this situation if one were asked “Do you believe there are human voices among us here, this very minute”, one could reasonably answer with a categorical negative: “I can’t hear any voices and I can’t see anyone talking, so no, I don’t believe there are voices among us.”

For the monotheistic religions, God is portrayed as a super, wiser, permanently-living version of us (or us an image of him as the religions would like to have it) but with a higher – indeed a perfect – moral code. He is both sexless (or at least celibate) and male, and he sees and hears everything we say and do but chooses not to be seen or heard. He exhorts us to pray, with a promise to answer our prayers, but then does nothing.