[JaBlue]

Seems to me that the mistake Westerners make when they're asked "do you believe in God" is that the only way they see God is Abrahamic God. Even this conception of God varies greatly on traditional and personal levels. It has been my experience that when I talk to people who haven't thought about God much that they think He is something like a man in the sky who lets people into heaven or hell.

I personally don't know if I believe in God. I definitely don't believe in any God as written about in the religious texts that I'm somewhat familiar with, but I'm open to a different idea of God. I'm willing to admit the possibility of God as a name for a world-soul, a self-causing cause, or maybe something else. If I choose to believe in God it will probably be with the knowledge that I can't have a clear idea of what it is.