(September 27, 2018 at 7:00 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It's really not that difficult to pin down. Gods are any random member of a set of anthropomorphized supernatural entities who hold authority over this or that function of the natural world (functions both real and imagined, no less).
A believer can bitch and moan when you poo-poo that idea from here till sunday service..but it is what they believe, and what the term has always denoted.
I spent a number of years debating with a Christian apologist who I initially met in a Usenet newsgroup.
We once spent most of a year arguing over whether there was a difference between "supernatural" and "paranormal", and whether his notion of "God" qualified as either, or as something else.
Movable goalposts come in very handy for apologists, I've noticed.
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Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."