(June 22, 2021 at 5:30 pm)Frank Apisa Wrote:Quote: I'll let you decide. My stance is that all deities are either:
- Incoherent. The Abrahamic god that's a confusion of mythologies and painfully laden with tribalism and bigotry.
- Inconsistent. A god that is self-refuting by virtue of having characteristics that are contradictory.
- Ineffable. A god that could conceivably exist but cannot be apprehended by mortal minds.
- Irrelevant. A god that is indistinguishable from natural phenomena in every way, shape and form.
- Insufficient. A god that we can't discuss properly because it lacks definition.
On a good day you can manage to hit all five of those in one go.
My guess: You are guessing there are no gods.
Your guess is a little off the mark. I'm willing to accept the proposition that god(s) might exist I just don't believe that mortal minds could begin to understand them. All theological discussion begins and ends at "God isn't impossible." and we can get on with doing the near infinite number of things that are more interesting. Anything further is a load of twaddle, which is precisely what the history of every religion reveals.
The deistic god that created the universe is just life support for the warm fuzzy bits of superstition that we want to cling to long after we've learned to stop being afraid of thunder and the rising moon.
