For me, it's not a matter of individual gods being poorly defined. Many are, or are at least self-contradictory with regards to how they operate, what their motives are, etc. But that's all easy enough to dismiss on a case-by-case basis.
My problem is not having a firm grasp of what godhood actually means. The foundation of all gods is the supernatural, which I said before is a cipher posing as a legitimate idea. Is a ghost a god? If not, why not? Is there some power/influence threshold that must be crossed before some supernatural being can qualify as a god? Do the kami of Shinto qualify? What about dead ancestors in the cultures that revere/worship them?
So, yeah, it's the general notion of godhood that I find to be unintelligible. What are the attributes that separate a god from not-a-god?
My problem is not having a firm grasp of what godhood actually means. The foundation of all gods is the supernatural, which I said before is a cipher posing as a legitimate idea. Is a ghost a god? If not, why not? Is there some power/influence threshold that must be crossed before some supernatural being can qualify as a god? Do the kami of Shinto qualify? What about dead ancestors in the cultures that revere/worship them?
So, yeah, it's the general notion of godhood that I find to be unintelligible. What are the attributes that separate a god from not-a-god?
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