God doesn't exist. (Many theologians have pointed this out, including John Scotus Eriugena, Paul Tillich, Karen Armstrong, and various thinkers from Judaism and Islam. This is because "God" is Being itself, or the Ground of All Being, or Nothing, or a process.)
God is love (according to various Christian commentators).
Love does not exist. (There's no thing you can point to and say it is love.)
Love is an experience shared between people.
God is an experience shared between people.
Very interesting. Having just had a discussion with my Freshman Composition students about concrete versus abstract description, I wish I had read this beforehand.
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