@bennyboy, That's not quite right. It's not just about form but also traits.
"The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object."
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/def...pomorphism
If someone is attributing human mental characteristics and behavior to a god they are anthropomorphizing. Religious theism seems to be predicated on this in so. E.x thinking of a god in terms of being a loving father and behaving like one.
This does rise a question I've had on my mind. In what way is a god like a human beside just having "rationality, self-consciousness, and volition?" I mean people seems a like too quick to jump to conclusions about the nature of a god's mind being very much like a human's. Other animals have some degree of rationality, self-consciousness, and volition, do they count as "personal?" Is my cat "personal?" Is an ape "personal?"
"The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object."
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/def...pomorphism
If someone is attributing human mental characteristics and behavior to a god they are anthropomorphizing. Religious theism seems to be predicated on this in so. E.x thinking of a god in terms of being a loving father and behaving like one.
This does rise a question I've had on my mind. In what way is a god like a human beside just having "rationality, self-consciousness, and volition?" I mean people seems a like too quick to jump to conclusions about the nature of a god's mind being very much like a human's. Other animals have some degree of rationality, self-consciousness, and volition, do they count as "personal?" Is my cat "personal?" Is an ape "personal?"
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