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Originally Posted by willravel
We don't believe in and have faith in love, we experience love as an affective state of consciousness. God is not a state of consciousness, he or she or it is a being, as is described in theism. Love may be loosely referred to in lore —Cupid/Eros, Aphrodite, etc.—, I'm sure you do not have faith in these beings because you recognize that, while they may have philosophical meaning, they are myths and are no more real than Frodo or Spider-Man.
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I think you've already stated this once, and I agree that God is not a state of consciousness, but 'Believe In God' is a state of consciousness. Since the believer must use his mind to believe, it must be a conscious thought, therefore a state of consciousness. The same can be said of 'Love'. So love & belief must both exist within conscious thought, both within a state of consciousness.