I have to disagree with Bruce, and say that despite what Bruce was told in Sunday school, there is very little about the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God that *is* a mystery. (By the JCI God, I mean the one of public discourse, who's sayings are, more or less, recorded in the 2 testaments and the Koran.) We know this fellow's views on practically every single topic, we know what pushes his buttons, we know what his main hobbies are, what his obsessions are, what his morality is, we know just where he thinks he rates in the scheme of things, ... Think about it: we have thousands of pages of his recorded sayings, supposedly. How much more could you wish to have available about a public figure before you concluded that you knew him thoroughly? Simply put, if you ran into this guy at a party, you'd be able to identify him in an instant. In human terms, all we don't know about the JCI God are the psychological factors that induced him to adopt his (often bizarre) views. But of course, until we get a more thorough understanding about how mind arises from neurological functioning, we don't even know that about ourselves. Cheers, David
