The problem with this "working backwards" approach is that it sets up a framework of imagination that can subsequently be embellished by confirmation bias and self-hypnosis.
I can imagine gods of all sizes, shapes and colours. I can imagine gods till the cows come home and go back out for work in the morning. I'm not interested in imaginary gods, unless I need new characters for a story I'm writing.
No, I need something more... real. Something that transcends the limitations imposed by the physical world. Something that can manifest independent of belief, undeterred by arrogance, skepticism or any of the other excuses that believers regularly give for their god's inability to reveal itself to nonbelievers.
Because a god that one has to imagine simply isn't all that valuable to me.
I can imagine gods of all sizes, shapes and colours. I can imagine gods till the cows come home and go back out for work in the morning. I'm not interested in imaginary gods, unless I need new characters for a story I'm writing.
No, I need something more... real. Something that transcends the limitations imposed by the physical world. Something that can manifest independent of belief, undeterred by arrogance, skepticism or any of the other excuses that believers regularly give for their god's inability to reveal itself to nonbelievers.
Because a god that one has to imagine simply isn't all that valuable to me.
