Agnostic Atheism? Your opinions thread's landfill

[Epimethean]

The polytheistic gods have been, in their time, as "theological" as any solo divinity. The Hindu system still preserves this, and those who worship do not trace the lineage of their gods to human roots. Call the root of all gods the manifestation of man's imagination. The capitalization does not grant any more or less real status save to the mind of the one who feels compelled to capitalize it. "Deus" and "Deva" are most likely related words, the former deriving from the latter. I capitalized the first because it was the first word in a sentence, the latter because it is the proper name of a god. The issue of capitalization is simply the missing "name" of the xtian god, which has conferred upon it the benefit of capitalization to distinguish it in the context of all the other gods. This disappears if we call him "Yahweh" or some other name, because we might well see this name in the context of other lower case gods. But, as xtians are fearful of pissing off their god, they capitalize the name even when it is absent. It is transference capitalization.