On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
Anything pantheistic. Taoism, several gnostic cults, certain native Americans I think, sufi mysticism, certain denominations of modern judaism... Ah and the force in Star Wars. >> >> Go ask the people in Aleppo if such matters have real world >> consequences or not... > > > Go ask them if "God" means a person. > > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
