Sorry folks the vast majority of this planet's people
don't even ascribe to the ontological and theological
biases presumed by this thread.
Hindu, Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims....Chinese, Indians,
Arabians, Japanese, et cetera out numbered all those
proselytized to believe in the Orthodox Judaic Christian
"god".
Even other Christian texts pre-date those that came
to form the "new" testament, which were largely
excluded for political reasons when Christianity was
transformed from a rebellious religion against the Roman State to a religion used by Rome and Justidian in particular
to subjugate people into obedience.
As for the old testament, what about the other versions
of Genesis, that have woman not formed from man, but
have man and woman split from an hermaphrodite?
Again the suppression of such texts help to reinforce
patriarchal rule for even the reading of text
in English effects the meaning of words written
originally in languages with gender associations.
So when defining "God", shall we only limit ourselves
to Jehovah...what about Allah, or the pantheons of
Greece and Rome, as well as the spirits of the Hopi,
plus Vishnu and the gods of the Kojiki amongst many
others??
For didn't Diderot and Voltaire note that if
god didn't exist man would have to create him?
Didn't Spinoza also say that man made God in his
image, so that what is determined to be "good" and
"bad" is of what is use to man?
Whatever power anthropomorphic or not may be, the
bottomline is that we have common bonds and
spiritual needs not only with our fellow men but
also with our fellow creatures and things....
Some need to put a familiar face on a deity, but
in reality none of us really can explain any such beings
and need to somehow try to extend are very finite abilities
to comprehend to give us some semblance of control,
organization and order.
Then again some of us don't need that need, and can
have morality, fellowship, respect and justice,
without theism or even a need to reject and be atheistic
by just being and not needing explanations or controls.
Anyway, sorry for my rambling sacrilegious
thoughts. Sort of a "Zen" thing.
Enjoy the rest of your discourse.
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