(December 13, 2024 at 10:26 pm)Angrboda Wrote:Unless there is something beyond the bare claim here, this has all the hallmarks of an appeal to authority fallacy.(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.
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