(November 17, 2018 at 11:21 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: -and if you pick into their "the universe itself" description..you'll find the assumption of every characteristic asserted in the definition provided. The contention is that "the universe"..is, properly, all of the things attributed to gods.
If it were just the universe..they'd call it the universe..but they don't. It's got that special something extra representative of the other set of things.
Yeah, it's not simply a naturalistic universe to such theists, but a universe intuitively imbued with some vague immaterial set of godly properties.
