(April 6, 2014 at 5:17 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(April 5, 2014 at 7:42 pm)RobbyPants Wrote: It sounds like you're just making up a definition for God and insisting everyone use it.
I didn't make up the definition. That's the one in the dictionary. Sure we could all make up endless nonsense words and say that they mean the same as any existing word. But why do that? We already have a word. That's how language works, on commonly agreed meanings.
Now I'm happy to accept that the whole of the description of God wasn't inferred, but neither was it taken. I find the objection unnecessary.
As already mentioned by Alex K, the god that people discuss during these discussion also has a lot of other attributes that fleems (or whatever) don't. Just because it shares some characteristics doesn't mean it's the same thing. Apples and oranges share many of the same characteristics and people seem to dislike comparing them (or at least recognize the difference).
That's why I'm objecting. Well that, and it seems you either missed the point of the illustration or were purposefully shifting the subject to something else.
