RE: God, Santa, and The Tooth Fairy
December 15, 2021 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2021 at 8:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
All swirling the drain, as no god believer is content with a god that lacks the one defining attribute of materiality.
Interaction. Whatever theistic gods are made of, they interact..and in fact they must interact with this world - or they fail to be what they are purported to be. Doesnt matter what the stuff is, or what kind of stuff it is, or whether it's a different kind of stuff than every other kind of stuff, or what we call it. Let's go with unobservium. Unobservium, the thing that gods are made of, interacts with material. It's interaction is itself contended to explain the material.
Such a contention makes no distinction between any kinds of stuff, in reality. All natural things are godstuff themselves. The retreat to immateriality and the hiddeness of god is an argument of convenience, not a genuinely held theistic belief. Ask any of them here and they'll tell you, for example, that they -do- see god when they explore the world using the principles of methodological naturalism. That the divine is not immune to scientific inquiry at all, but glorified by it.
Interaction. Whatever theistic gods are made of, they interact..and in fact they must interact with this world - or they fail to be what they are purported to be. Doesnt matter what the stuff is, or what kind of stuff it is, or whether it's a different kind of stuff than every other kind of stuff, or what we call it. Let's go with unobservium. Unobservium, the thing that gods are made of, interacts with material. It's interaction is itself contended to explain the material.
Such a contention makes no distinction between any kinds of stuff, in reality. All natural things are godstuff themselves. The retreat to immateriality and the hiddeness of god is an argument of convenience, not a genuinely held theistic belief. Ask any of them here and they'll tell you, for example, that they -do- see god when they explore the world using the principles of methodological naturalism. That the divine is not immune to scientific inquiry at all, but glorified by it.
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