(July 29, 2016 at 11:00 am)bennyboy Wrote:(July 29, 2016 at 10:42 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: "God is love"
"God is nature"
"God is the universe"
"God is a concept"
Hardly makes you a theist
How about "God is whatever philosophical principle or creative property that allows the Universe to exist?" That I believe in necessarily. I also think panpsychism is a possibility, and in that case I'd think of the Universe as God, but literally have no way to confirm it.
Sometimes, you're agnostic in a conditional sense: I believe IF idea X is true, then God is real. But you have no way to validate idea X. (for example, panpsychism). At any rate, being shouted at, "Are you dumb? Do you believe in a god, any god, yes or no?" is kind of insulting, and makes for pretty boring conversation.
The conversation didn't start that way, yet you kept evading a simple question by pretending you didn't know what I was asking.
I do believe you just admitted to being a theist, so there you go then. You are a theist, not an atheist.
