(2023-06-27, 09:44 PM)Silence Wrote: I guess. Just isn't my type of 'discussion'. Trying to make logical statements about the nature of something that, if real, is almost certainly beyond our ability to fathom (i.e., our 'logic' would seem a near useless explanatory instrument in this case). Just seems a bit incoherent.
I can sort of sympathize. It's hard to see the exact practical value of discussing the nature of our supposed Creator if one isn't already pre-committed to either theism, philosophical arguments for their own sake, or perhaps showing that both Unlimited Classical Theist God and Personal God are too flawed to accept as real or if real they are not worthy of worship.
For me I think of it as a kind of mental work out to think through ideas that people often accept uncritically, whether that's the lack of God or a particular kind of God. I myself think there is a Limited God, though what this means exactly is unclear even to me so I find the discussions of interest.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell