There are many definitions of god.
None are real entities.
I find the God of the Semitic religions the most problematic:
1. because he has been the most used as justifications of war, conquest, forced conversions, pogroms, racist atrocities, and the Inquisition.
2. because it is logically and tautologically impossible for a god to be omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and good, and yet to have permitted and allowed suffering.
3. because there is plenty of archeological and historical evidence that the OT and subsequent religious developments were invented by men for the purpose of uniting and controlling people as nations. In the beginning it was mostly about survival, but later it became solely a matter of power and wealth.
I have no objection to the Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist "gods" because the term god is a mistranslation. Properly speaking they are idams, meaning personifications of abstract ideas. For instance, Saraswati symbolises knowledge.
I have little objection to the Esoteric Vedantist version of "god" because it is just consciousness, albeit conceived of as all-pervading, like a substance or energy from which all else is composed. I do have one quibble with it.
It redefines consciousness to such a degree that it turns the normal the normal meaning of the word into nonsense - effectively a synonym for energy (in either kinetic or latent form) as understood in quantum physics.
I have no objection to pantheist versions of gods or spirits such as believed by hunter-gatherer cultures. These tend to integrate human culture with the natural world, such that people can live in harmony with their ecosystem and the planet.
But for me, there is no such thing as a god. I am happy with science's methods of exploring and testing how this universe was made and how life evolved.
I have zero fear of death and my future non-existence; though I do fear the many sad and painful processes of aging and dying. I live my life as healthily as I can, and have the means to euthanize myself when the right time comes.
I am also content that we humans can work out moral codes and laws that work well most of the time, and that most individuals are capable of evolving and mostly living in accordance with their own ethics. We do not need gods to tell us how to live. We certainly don't need to invent gods to tell us what's right or wrong.
