On 12/8/2016 3:29 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/5/2016 1:31 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 3:38 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/4/2016 10:45 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]>
wrote:
and by doing so you drag in a lot of baggage. There was a group of
atheists in the Dallas area which for a time formed a church and claimed
to
be a religion for tax purposes. They defined "God" to be whatever was
good
in the world. The IRS disallowed their claim.
I assume that evoking the American IRS as a a scholarly authority on
such a matter is a joke, right?
But they are as good an authority as any. Unlike theologians they have to
make decisions that have real consequences - not just mix word salad.
But this is not a discussion about theology, it's a discussion about
the historical and cultural variations of concepts of god -- it falls
under anthropology and history.
OK, tell me about a historical or cultural variation in which "god"
doesn't not refer to a person/agent.
Go ask the people in Aleppo if such matters have real world
consequences or not...
Go ask them if "God" means a person.
Brent
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