God, miracles, and atheism

There is a trend toward atheism that I don't understand.  
The term "atheist" seems so ambiguous that it does not mean anything; mainly because "God" is so ambiguous that its' meanings are lost in the personal background of the person who uses the word.  I cannot believe that atheists are simply people who deny the "Old Man With A Beard", or embrace a random sequence of events that led to Darwin and his treatise on species that 'cut it' and those that don't.  I've listened to hours of stuff by Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins debating various people on 'God's side' and it always seems to miss the point. God is a relationship with the unknown.  Implied by that simple statement is that 1. The unknown changes.  2. It is different for different people.  3. There is always an unknown.  
The unknown, or God, is a horizon that recedes as one approaches it. GOD is a useful idea because it holds the things that I do not understand, and does not give them to someone else, like "Science", or "The Church",  "Economics", or "Medicine". Each of these baskets employs a priesthood to control the mind and the body.  "Science" is God as a charlatan who distracts with smoke and mirrors while looting our own powers of observation and deduction.  Science as "a way of knowing" should empower humans.  Whether an I-phone is empowering or not is another related topic.  The God thing goes All over the place.

The issue at hand is the Supreme Being and whether or not  He exists: back to the horizon.  
The horizon is based on a ground, a height, and a curvature; the length  of the tangent to the viewer is knowable, and changes with the other variables.  Call the length of the line "What I Know", call the tangent point the edge between known and unknown, and call the curve beyond the tangent point "God". The variables are "how high am I", in other words, how big is my view, the known expands as God seems to recede from view, thus the warnings to the faithful to avoid intellectualism and cynicism and have faith.  But all that is in the conscious realm, "above ground", so to speak.  Below ground is "Being", the solid reality that all the mental speculation orbits.  This is called "direct knowing".  It cuts to the center and eliminates speculation.  This is mysticism, since it is "below ground", the higher one goes, the further from the mystic he becomes, the gap between the scientist and the witch doctor or shaman.

 It is simple to see the validity of conscious, scientific knowing, as well as unconscious (maybe sub-conscious, or pre-conscious...etc...), mystical knowing.  Something smarter than the brain thinks before the brain becomes conscious, evidenced by skillful reactions in a car, catching one's balance, or turning a hamburger into hair and fingernails, denying this, or giving it to Science to babysit until it is solved does not make it go away!  On the other hand, culture and individual history grows out of the broad view.  Hamburgers and fingernails will never spontaneously combust into "The Council on Foreign Relations" or other mystical cabals that drive human events. This is Consciousness, which happens in time, and is the made up world of ideas that we love so much we think there must be nothing else; "true love" does this to a person. 

                  Mr. Science

 This is also the realm of manipulation and shepherding the minds of people into gods disguised as science. Like the used car salesman,"Trust me.  Would I lie?" Science-as-huckster mixes with the true way of knowing and invades our minds, stimulates choices we don't understand, and leads us away from ourselves as effectively as any religion or fake god could hope to.

So the mystery is not one at all.  God exists because I do.  He is as big as I am. He is the thing I wonder about as well as the ladder I climb to examine it.  He is as much a person as I need him to be, he is as distant from me as I am from my own ground of being.  The mature head will recognize it is connected to a real body which stands on some ground.  An immature head will float into space and wonder at its' powers of levitation, ignoring the venerable shoulders it sits on to make its lofty reflections.  Does God love me or care about the world and its misery?  Is God a solution or a savior? Can I pray to God?  etc...OR can a proportion do the things that the Old Man With A Beard used to do?  I would say "Even better". Prayer is a word that describes "going to the ground of being while expanding ones view in order to see more light". The proportion works like a machine and yet is a product of consciousness and so has the power to save.  Is a proportion sentimental about kittens , old ladies or human life? 

Getting things done, Empire-style

 No, and neither is God, evidenced by the ghastly performance of "good Christians" in spreading the so-called "gospel of love"; into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador through genocide and corporate fascism, and now Africa, the Middle East, and onward to the stars!  Every non-white person seems to deserve the love of Columbus who severed the hands of "the comely natives" if they did not bring him gold. I would take a Proportion over that demon any day. (And what random mutation set math principles anyway?) 

In summary, if you are holding your breath for a fat guy to squeeze down the chimney with a bag of toys, you will turn blue for sure.  If you proceed as though the Spirit of Love can fit itself into small spaces and expand miraculously, your breaths will become fuller and richer. Now, maybe I should take my own advice.  Amen.