First I want to say Merry Newton's birthday! On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> usage says that "God" means an immortal person with supernatural power >> who wants, and deserves, to be worshipped. > > > > > That's the Christian use > > . Why do atheists insist so much we use the christian notion, Well... at least atheists have some notation in mind when they use the word . It may not exist but at least "an immortal person with supernatural power who wants and deserves to be worshiped" means something. Theists, at least most of those on this list, quite literally don't know what they're talking about when they talk about "God". As near as I can tell to them the word "God" means an invisible fuzzy amoral blob that does nothing and knows nothing and thinks about nothing that we can not effect and that does not effect our lives . Why even invent a word for a concept as useless as that? > > > god is just the big things at the origin of everything. > And if that turns out to be the quantum vacuum are you prepared to call that God? Of course you're not! And you can protest all you want but it's obvious you want something that is conscious and intelligent and purposeful, not something as mindless as a sack full of doorknobs. > > > read serious theologian or philosophers. And speaking of a sack full of doorknobs, how can one tell the difference between a serious theologian and a buffoon theologian? > > > My use of God is close to Einstein one, Spinoza, Leibniz, St-Anselme, > Gödel, Huxley, I am going to ask a hypothetical question to try to get a better understanding of what you're saying. Suppose for the sake of argument you're wrong and that invisible fuzzy mindless blob did not exist; how would the universe be one bit different? What could "God" bring to the table that something that wasn't a invisible fuzzy mindless blob could not? John K Clark -- 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.
