(November 15, 2013 at 12:21 pm)wallym Wrote: I'm a twatwaffle. The Gods that humans have come up with are silly. Screw physical proof, just some common sense about God's alleged nature should be enough.Well, I think we can probably say that specific attributes of specific gods are so ridiculous that their likelihood is essentially nil- like, for instance, we can search every inch of Mt. Olympus, and we know we are not going to find Zeus there. So I'm pretty sure that Zeus is not sitting on Mt. Olympus. Does this negate EVERYTHING about Zeus, to the extent that I can be absolutely sure he doesn't exist? No.
Since no two theists can agree on the nature of their deity, and get worked up about other theists misrepresenting their god, I'd prefer to let them hash out a common working definition before saying I know anything for sure. Those annoying theists who say shit like "God is love!" are putting everyone in the position of agreeing with them by dint of fuzzy definitions. We all believe in love, so if God IS love, then we have to believe in it.
