(December 1, 2021 at 5:14 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I get the sense that some athiests think that all thiests believe that God is just another thing in a universe of things. I remember writing about this pernicious category error in a thread called " tooth fairy bullshit".
I skimmed that thread, but don't see your argument there.
Some theists do see God in the way you describe. My grandmother certainly did.
I think most theists don't think too deeply about the matter at all.
But no, I don't think that intelligent theists usually say that God is an object in the universe. But I have yet to see what they think the word *does* signify. That's one reason I am, on alternate days, an ignostic: I just don't think the term 'God' is meaningful at all. The other days I think it is (barely), but still see no evidence for such.
So, yes, I am one of those 'douchbag' atheists that see God as equivalent to the tooth fairy. The only difference is that adults believe in God and grow out of believing in the tooth fairy and we have a society that promotes God-belief.
