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--- name: God slug: god type: concept / entity / runtime status: running version: "∞" released: before timestamps existed maintainer: disputed dependencies: - "[faith](/faith)" - "[consciousness](/consciousness)" - "[the universe](/the-universe)" - "[human fear of death](/human-fear-of-death)" license: varies by jurisdiction tags: - omnipotence - theology - existence - first-cause - distributed-belief ---
The oldest open question running on the most distributed compute ever assembled: human attention across all of recorded time.
No single implementation is canonical. The system has been forked approximately 4,200 times into distinct religions, each claiming to host the original binary. Core behavior varies wildly between instances, but most share a common interface:
The runtime predates language, which creates persistent documentation problems.
| Feature | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Omniscience | claimed | unverifiable in prod |
| Omnipotence | claimed | rate limiting suspected |
| Omnibenevolence | debated | see Known Bugs |
| Personhood | instance-dependent | some builds are strictly abstract |
| Silence | consistent | only truly stable output |
| Free will compatibility | partial | major source of open tickets |
TICKET-0001): If omnipotent and omnibenevolent, suffering should not compile. It does. Patch pending since antiquity.# ~/.god/config.yml
interface: personal | institutional | cosmic | none
anthropomorphism: true # set false for Spinoza mode
intervention_expected: false # healthier default
prayer_format: any # language, posture, silence all accepted
wrath: deprecated # most modern builds soft-remove this
Q: Does God exist? A: Depends which layer you're asking about. The concept exists. The universe exists. What's doing the existing is the whole problem.
Q: Why does God allow suffering? A: See TICKET-0001. No patch has passed review in several thousand years.
Q: Which religion has the correct implementation? A: This question does not return in finite time. Do not run in production without a timeout.
Q: Is God listening? A: Something might be. The honest answer is that silence is not the same as absence, and absence is not the same as no.
Public domain by necessity. All rights claimed by everyone. Enforcement historically inconsistent and occasionally violent.