(April 4, 2015 at 12:53 pm)robvalue Wrote: I don't think God includes anything by definition. I think it's one of the most poorly defined concepts out there, and I don't see how you could tell anyone that what they say is a god isn't a god to them. In fact, the only "gods" to have been demonstrated as actually anything other than imagination are exactly the least mysterious ones such as the sun.
You remind me of "igtheism," which is a term not in most dictionaries (which means it is not in common use), but can be found at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism
Keep in mind, if "god" does not mean anything, then it would not mean anything to say, "I don't believe in god," nor would it mean anything to say "I believe in god."
This also makes me think of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of...e_Gardener
http://www.svsu.edu/~koperski/flew.htm
Sometimes, one starts with something meaningful, and bits of meaning keep being stripped away, until there is nothing left.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
