Assertion: atheist's god | /r/HasProperty | metaphor
Facets:
value: essentially
type: DEGREE
value: for the laws
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Naturalistic Pantheism, of the kind espoused by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, is similar to atheism insofar as it disbelieves in a personal God or other deities and supernatural beings, and the “god” of Spinoza is essentially just a metaphor for the laws that govern the universe (Richard Dawkins has referred to pantheism as “sexed up atheism”).
text: Some follow the tradition of "Christian non-realism", most famously expounded in the United Kingdom by Don Cupitt in the 1980s, which holds that God is a symbol or metaphor and that religious language is not matched by a transcendent reality.