Either you agree with god or you don't. If you agree, then you _are_ your god.

[ProfessorPlum]

I'm happy to see this group on DU. It's been a long road for me, from believing what I was taught, to reading and really wanting to know as much about my religion as I could find out, to learning the truth about what exactly is known and what is not, and how and when and by whom the scriptures were written, to the final arguments that released me from needing a deity to imagine.

I feel kind of stupid that it took me so long.

But the basic problem (or non-necessity) of god(s) was pointed out way back when by Plato (or Socrates) in the Euthyphro.

Basically, Plato was pointing out that if you agreed with (your imagined version of) god about morality, then god was unnecessary. If you agree with the god in your head, then _You_ are your god.

If you don't agree with your god about morality, then either you are wrong or it is. And how can you make that judgment?

Only by using your own sense of morality. And there is the rub.

No god can provide for or substitute for your own sense of morality. It is the only thing we each can rely on to make judgments.

And it abnegates the need for a god.