On Jun 12, 11:31 am, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope to get up to speed here too in order to enter into the > discussion in some coherent way. > > Over the years, the anthropomorphic nature of god as accepted by many > - atheist and theist alike - has skewed this sort of discussion into > incoherent areas...mainly fed by ignorance.
It seems as if Alan is attempting to differentiate the anthropomorphic view with a less anthropomorphic view, claiming a god can't be the anthropomorphic view, thus there is only one. At least, that's what I see now. > > On Jun 12, 8:44 am, Simon Ewins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > [Alan Wostenberg] > > > >>> How, Simon, is Zeus other than an alien? What quality distinguishes a > > >>> god from an alien in the atheist taxonomy? > > > >> A god is a supernatural object of worship, veneration, praise, passion, > > >> supplication, a receiver of and a responder to prayers and so on. An > > >> alien is not such and if it were it would be being treated as a god. > > > > OK. So an alien is not a god but could be 'treated as a god'. > > > Unlikely but possible I suppose. > > > > Now if > > > we understand a god as 'a supernatural object', then Zeus and the > > > whole greek pantheon are not gods. > > > Gods are also invisible, intangible and eternally elusive. So Zeus and > > the 5,726 others with names are as well since they are all of the same > > attributes. > > > > As embodied minds, they are > > > natural, not supernatural, entities. > > > No they fit the description of gods. > > > > They are aliens treated 'as a > > > god' and not a god. So, what's an example of a named god that is not > > > an alien? > > > YHWH. Thor. Baal-Tammuz. Plus 5,764 more. > > > -- > > WARNING: This message is only readable empirically. > > > "I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank > > and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning." > > [Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "A Civil Religious Debate" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/a-civil-religious-debate?hl=en.
