On 5/29/2019 11:47 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Only atheists insist to use “God” in the sense of the Christian (and only Aristotelian among them, where indeed materialism has been*the* dogma).
Words are for communication and so their meaning is determined by their usage. "God" in the sense of Christians is also God in the sense of Muslims and Hindus. So it is the usage of at least 70% of humanity. To use it to mean something else is obfuscation.
You confirm, like many, that the atheists "are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chain which they have thrown off after hard struggle”, to quote Einstein.and it meant a supernatural human-like agent: Agdistis or Angdistis, Ah Puch, Ahura Mazda, Alberich, Allah, Amaterasu, An, Anansi, Anat, Andvari, Anshar, Anu, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apsu, Ares, Artemis, Asclepius, Athena, Athirat, Athtart, Atlas, Baal, Ba Xian, Bacchus, Balder, Bast, Bellona, Bergelmir, Bes, Bixia Yuanjin, Bragi, Brahma, Brent, Brigit,...Si-Wang-Mu, Sin, Sirona, Sol, Surya, Susanoh, Tawaret, Tefnut, Tezcatlipoca, Thanatos, Thor, Thoth, Tiamat, Tianhou, Tlaloc, Tonatiuh, Toyo-Uke-Bime, Tyche, Tyr, Utu, Uzume, Vediovis, Venus, Vesta, Vishnu, Volturnus, Vulcan, Xipe, Xi Wang-mu, Xochipilli, Xochiquetzal, Yam, Yarikh, YHWH, Ymir, Yu-huang, Yum Kimil or Zeus?I will ask you to use the word “Earth” for a Flat object on which the human stand up.
An attempted analogy that does not work. Unlike "god", we can define Earth ostensively and so learn that it has different properties, like being spheroidal, without changing the definition.
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