We’re often told that God is unique, in form, in substance, in nature. If true, then making an analogous argument about God with ANY mundane object - say, peanut butter - cannot be considered valid and fails on the face of it. In fact, God is so esoteric and so far beyond human comprehension that all God-talk is just so much wind.
The only way around this - that is, to talk about God coherently - is to accept that God has at least some mundane, empirical qualities (Winter attempted this and failed in a truly epic fashion). Theists by and large seem very resistant to go down that road. I wonder why…
Boru
The only way around this - that is, to talk about God coherently - is to accept that God has at least some mundane, empirical qualities (Winter attempted this and failed in a truly epic fashion). Theists by and large seem very resistant to go down that road. I wonder why…
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson