On 27 Jan 2014, at 05:47, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/26/2014 7:00 PM, LizR wrote:
On 27 January 2014 15:50, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 1/26/2014 1:45 PM, LizR wrote:
OK, so your notion of God is "whatever is fundamentally
responsible for existence" - hence primitive materialism makes
matter (energy etc) play the part of God, in that sense. I can see
that - an explanation that stops at matter and says "that's it!"
is indeed making it a God, in the same way a religious person does
when they say "God did it, end of story!"
fwiw I agree with Bruno on this, his broader sense of "God" makes
sense and is more worthy of our attention than the "Sky Father
sitting on a cloud" (which isn't even the concept of God in all
religions).
Except then it's not a proper noun and should be written "god".
Incredibly picky, but annoyingly true.
It's picky, but notice how much difference it would make,
psychologically, if it were followed by Bruno and the theologians he
quotes. And Bruno even says god is unnameable, so it can't be a
name. So I think John Clark has a good point - Bruno really *wants*
to connect with the idea of the creator man in the sky.
The contrary. I want people to handle the religious question with the
scientific method/attitude. If not it is pseudo-science and pseudo-
religion.
Bruno
Brent
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