Science and Religion cannot overlap.

[Michael]

Rhythm, my view concerning other concepts of God is pretty much like my view in science. That is there is 1) an objective reality that exists, and 2) there is our understanding (our sense-making) of that objective reality. Our understanding will have simplifications (or perhaps over-complications), incompleteness, imprecision and error. I don't see our understanding of truth as binary. I don't believe it's a simple case of saying either something is true or it's complete rubbish. Rather, there is a more continuous spectrum of understanding, between complete and accurate understanding and either complete lack of understanding or a completely wrong understanding. The understanding of 'Wotan' that conforms to reality is true, and that which doesn't is not. But without a much better understanding of what Wotan really meant to people I can't comment further.

I find I sit somewhere between realism and nominalism on questions like this. It would be convenient if I could easily identify fully with one approach, but unfortunately I don't.