(August 8, 2009 at 3:14 pm)Ace Wrote: Oops, mistake number 2!No. Their difference is that the easter bunny and the flying spaghetti monster are worldly, material, spatial and temporal and contingent objects, whereas the transcendent Other who I call God is immaterial, nonspatial, nontemporal and self subsistent rather than contingent.
Whatever you call your imaginary friend does not matter in anyway. A name is just a name.
I could reverse your argument - "I only call easter bunny exactly what my argument concludes."
"But the easter bunny of my theology is not an easter bunny of arbitrary predication. It's an easter bunny who is approached gradually, and not called easter bunny until the transcendent existence is properly defined and it's necessity explained."
No matter what the purpose of the claim of a being and its name, all made up characters are the same. There are no differances between santa to easter bunny, FSM, pink uniforns or gods. God is no more special or more likely than any of these made up characters. Neither of them can be disproved. The only differances are their names and purposes.
Your easter bunny and FSM simply do not live up to the criteria of transcendence.
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton
