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Originally Posted by Jasper84  Ok, the universe does have some similarities to how god is defined. But this does not mean i treat it differently. I certainly do not talk about the universe the way theists talk about god.
I think there is still a big difference in how theists think about god, and about how i think about the universe. I think moderate theists do assign more attributes to god then your points minus number 6. (although i would not know any more then adding nr six.) |
Of course there is a difference in the way people
think about God, and that's ok. The point is that the theists and atheists are thinking the same Being (using the philosophical definition of it, not synonymous to 'creature'). Everyone picks the metaphor for reality that suits them better, and there is nothing wrong with that. For example, there is nothing wrong with Shakespeare thinking about, describing and understanding
love differently from, say, Freud or a modern neurobiologist. It's still the same
thing they are talking about, but seen from an entirely different perspective. It's even possible for a single person to have two seemingly contradicting views about reality both being present in his brain.