To me, fighting over a word is a waste of energy that could be
  better served by fighting what the CONCEPTS BEHIND the word
  represents.

  I don't use the word God much. Why? Baggage. Not _my_ baggage
  but the baggage of my audience. Yet conceptually, I'm likely
  closest to [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism - not
  pantheism but the ridiculously similar looking word. But the
  baggage tacked on to "special words" like God or religion gets
  in the way of communication. *I* know what I mean. *I* can
  define existing words to fit my outlook. But it's far easier to
  just pick different words and convey the concept instead.

  Not saying you need to. Just saying that works for me, and I
  believe it works in general in improving conveyance of ideas.

References

  Visible links
  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism

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