RE: Is the Argument from Degrees contradictory to the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
June 23, 2023 at 6:08 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2023 at 6:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The god that he was angling for was hotter than the hottest fire and colder than the coldest cold. Whatever you can think of, god is that, and is the most of that, and the most of that in a different way than anything else that is that.
I think it's probably easier to understand if you consider that the god he was angling for was the unitarian All of a hellenist civil administration and political religion. They had effectively come up with an idea of god that was a big political game of "yes, and" because they were trying to rule over a diverse empire and lacked the military power to cover it all. It was massively syncretic. So whatever some malcontent in nothereistan said god was, they;d say "yes and"...and then proceed to appropriate that tribal god for their pantheon both ideologically and physically in the form of temple structures and how they played into the classical worlds taxation schemes.
St Tommy comes in after all of that, looks around and decides the philosophical underpinnings of christianity in his time were garbage, and the rest is history.
I think it's probably easier to understand if you consider that the god he was angling for was the unitarian All of a hellenist civil administration and political religion. They had effectively come up with an idea of god that was a big political game of "yes, and" because they were trying to rule over a diverse empire and lacked the military power to cover it all. It was massively syncretic. So whatever some malcontent in nothereistan said god was, they;d say "yes and"...and then proceed to appropriate that tribal god for their pantheon both ideologically and physically in the form of temple structures and how they played into the classical worlds taxation schemes.
St Tommy comes in after all of that, looks around and decides the philosophical underpinnings of christianity in his time were garbage, and the rest is history.
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