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Although I do not believe in God or Gods, such belief can be a useful hermeneutic device for understanding the spiritual world which we cannot observe directly.
I am defining spiritual world as that which exists beyond space, time, energy, and mass.
Of course I cannot prove the existance of a spiritual world, and my point is not to debate whether or not there is such a reality. Such debate is futile.
But I think it is certainly possible that there are planes of existence beyond what our minds can conceptualize and observe. Because we cannot directly conceptualize and observe them, those that have a spiritual aspect to their paradigms require a symbolic method to understand them. For some, the "god concept" is what does that.
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