What is God?

Religion is a powerful synchronizer of minds. Any protocol has network effects, cultural ones no less than others — agreement on behavioral and moral conventions allows for more efficient cooperation between human beings. Religion helps us to help each other flourish. That is not a coincidence.

God is the source of reality. It is indeed that simple: whatever the source of reality is, that's God. The Big Bang, entropy, quantum fields — these are how , not why . Implementation details. Rather than whence , merely what . Means instead of self-justifying end.

Why did humans evolve with religion, with the capacity to experience spiritual ecstasy, to deeply feel that there is this Whole? Because it was rewarded, it worked and continued. Why? Because of the Actuality. We need to grasp and grapple with our environment — its strange ways and our lack of ultimate control.

Human concepts can only approximate the holy transcendence that cradles existence itself. Even our most correct perceptual and existential paradigm is going to be inadequate. Concepts are maps, models. And all models are wrong, as the saying goes, but some are useful. The inadequacy of the map may be vexing in its inherent omissions, but nonetheles