(December 13, 2024 at 10:26 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(December 13, 2024 at 10:23 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: True, a deity that isn't bound by logic won't have to suffer the consequences of abusing it. However, us mortals are a different matter. Our little lumps of grey matter are still bound to thinking about things that don't explode our heads via logical contradiction. That's why you can't actually envision a square circle, a married bachelor, or a four-sided triangle. The moment that theology conjures something that violates reason it effectively removes it from human knowledge. Such a deity might exist but you'd never be able to understand it in any fashion. It would be much less Biblical and a lot more Lovecraftian.
In the appendix to one of his works, Plato argues that what the gods comprehend, mortals cannot, and vice versa.
And by extension, are incomprehensible to each other. Gods like that are a great deal more sensible, I don't expect to be able to wrap my mind around The Allmighty, but they're inconvenient to organized religion round about that the clergy decides to pick your pockets via god's will.