Atheist Fundamentalism

[Neo-Scholastic]

...all you can really accomplish is the logical demonstration of the absolutely necessary existence of some metaphysical principle or natural law.

As Schopenhauer pointed out, "The word God, honestly used, expresses such a cause of the world with the addition of personality," ...

Following Plotinus, I disagree with Schopenhauer's statement. God, or the All, may have something analgous to personality, but not personality as such. Personality, like other attributes, would ultimately be contingent on the first metaphysical principle. So I believe, and I think you would agree, that if one accepts the idea of a first metaphysical principle, then knowledge of it by creatures such as ourselves will always be partial and filtered through our limitations. I think we can know of the unmoved mover, but not the unmoved mover directly. Our knowledge seems confined to the intermediate forms that emanate from it.