On 03 Feb 2013, at 22:56, meekerdb wrote:
On 2/3/2013 8:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
It simpler to generalize the notion of God so that indeed basically
all correct machines believes in God, and in some theories question
like "is God a person" can be an open problem.
But you have a vocabulary problem related to the fact that you
cannot cut with your education which has impose to you only one
notion of God.
Why should there be more than one notion designated by "God". The
Abrahamic religions use the word to designate a particular notion:
an omniscience, omnipotent, benevolent creator person who wants us
to worship him. Together their adherents constitute 54% of those
who believe in a theist god. And if we take your view that atheists
and agnostics use the same definition, then 70% of people use
that same meaning. If there's some other notion, why not call it
something else.
The meaning of words can evolve. In this case I use the word
"theology" in the old original sense, and even that sense still make
sense for 70% of the Abramanic theology, despite adding more weird
attributes.
Like John you confirm my feeling that atheists defend the use of the
word as it has been imposed to us, and not the more general concept
which bring theologies in the first place.
Using another world would not help in the comparative theological
studies, including the comparaison with comp.
Bruno
Brent
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