[BIG NIGE]

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Existence is a Mystery. The nature of existence and our place in it is a Mystery. Science cannot explain this Mystery. But people want to grasp some understanding of it anyway. So they meditate on the Mystery and in looking for the Source of it they often come to conceptualize what they call "God". "God" is a Mystery word that incorporates a Faith that resonates with validity for them.

The tooth fairy is something entirely different. You may not understand this process, and in your lack of understanding you may choose to belittle it. Nevertheless, the evidence is it happens for people. Why does it happen? Is there any validity to it? Who knows. But you can't conclude from your place of Not Knowing that it is equivalent to belief in the tooth fairy.

PairTheBoard

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First of all, you didn't mention one difference between God and the Tooth Fairy, other than that the Tooth Fairy is something "entirely different" without explaining why. Second, yes, I do operate from a position of ignorance that's why I'm asking this question And third, you say that "the evidence is it happens for people." Well, guess what, the tooth fairy "happens" for little kids too, and they believe it just as fevently and unwaveringly as many adults believe in God, and parents do everything they can to perpetuate this myth. The difference is, the kids will eventually find out about the tooth fairy being made up, but God has been defined in such a way as to make it impossible to prove or disprove, because it has literally become synonymous with anything that currently cannot be explained by any other means. It's just a default explanation to artificially fill a void for some people who can't handle being in the dark about anything at all.