Belief in God

The speciousness of the popular formulation 'I believe in God' is borne out by its ungrammatical structure. The object of a belief is a proposition, the expression of which is properly constructed as 'X believes that P', in which P is a clause, i. e. P consists of a subject and a predicate. For many, that proposition seems to be 'God exists', which, in itself, is no more informative than 'Satan exists'. In many cases, the implicit predicate seems to be 'dispenses rewards and punishments', but with little agreement as to the occasions of such dispensation. In fact, common sentiment seems to be that the determining factor of such divine action is whether or not one 'believes in God', thereby closing the vacuous circle of popular religion.