Materialism and God
I’ve been having philosophical talks with my muslim gf (we know this is supposedly against the book but oh well) about dialectical materialism (of which i’m understanding more and more the implications) and we’ve come to a conclusion : she is kinda idealist (ideas exist independently of materiality) and a dualist (separation between material and "spiritual") and i’m a full on materialist.
It got me thinking about the idea of god when i told her i also viewed dialectical materialism as a sort of spirituality, a way to "trust the forces" hence letting your whole self focused on what can be done, then it hit me.
I’ve long been on the train of actualizing religion, abundant heaven being communism and firey hell being global warming (we got upwards of 46°C in France), then the thought arrived : idealists believe god is an entity moved by their ideas (let there be light because i said so), while my construction of what i could call god is a vague concept of the forces involved (let there be light because that’s just what happens under these conditions lol)
the most counter intuitive part for me is that idealists’ god would have a materiality (an all knowing all powerful entity) and materialists’ god would be an abstract conjugation of forces thus having no materiality.
bonus point : idk if it’s bs but i’ve heard "muslim" means something along the lines of "submitted to the order of things"
am i onto absolutely nothing ?