On 5/28/2019 12:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
You need to use the word “god” in the sense of the neoplatonist, which
might not believe in the God “matter”.
Neoplatonist are usually “atheist” with respect to physicalism, or
with respect to the idea that the physical reality is at the origin of
the other (psychological) realities.
I remind you that we have define “God” by whatever is responsible for
our conscious experience. The atheist and post-529 christians are
believer in the “second God of Aristotle” i.e. a primitively material
universe, or a primitively physical universe.
I'm reminded of a quip by Bertrand Russell:
“People are more unwilling to give up the word ‘God’ than to give up the
idea for which the word has hitherto stood”
Brent
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