(May 2, 2019 at 3:50 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I guess I'm a little puzzled as to the value of calling everything "God." It doesn't help us understand anything, it doesn't have any explanatory power or any utility that you can integrate into your life, it doesn't answer any of the big philosophical questions (why are we here, where are we going, etc). Is the only reason because it helps some people feel some sort of connectedness?
If that's the case, then that's fine - but a feeling derived from a proposition isn't anything close to a reason to believe that proposition.
I agree. I get that more skeptical humans want to avoid the pratfalls of gap filling, but trying to compete with old mythology, by creating new language that is just as hollow and gap filling, isn't the answer.
"Why we are here".... Because we are. There is ultimately no reason. What matters isn't "why" but trying to find answers as to process. There does not need to be a "super" anything to find answers.
