(July 22, 2014 at 3:23 pm)Blackout Wrote: Not much. Are you suggesting the deistic god proposition would be all that's left? As an anti-theist, are you too against the deistic god type? And by the way, don't you have to be against the god idea to be an anti-theist? The words 'anti' + 'theist' point that way.
I'm not against the deistic god because it DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. In my mind it's simply synonymous with an awe for the Cosmos, the mysteries the underlie our ability to comprehend a cohesive Universe. That's not much of a god, that's just human emotion and inability to apprehend all facets of reality.
I am against the theistic god because it implies or demands the things I've mentioned, which I find both morally and intellectually abhorrent.
But the bigger problem, which not only applies to all theistic gods but to all definitions, is that the word means something different to anyone you ask, and that is simply another way of saying it means nothing. It's literally indistinguishable from Marklar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzq4YDt7V-o
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza