The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3751029
Posted By: Steve Shaw
15-Nov-15 - 06:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
Hmm. Well, "the essence of nature" is one of those handy made-up phrases that actually means about as much as "the essence of Walmart". Your God of the essence is a superimposed figure (intra-imposed even, if there is such a word) who stops you from seeing the true reality of the wonderful nature of things. Try taking him away (I promise to let you put him back). There, you see? You've lost nothing! Everything is just as wonderful and just as mystical and spiritual as you want it to be (and even I want it to be just a little). You don't need him, and the great thing is that you're now free to look for the real evidence of how things come about and use your full intellect to relish the enjoyment of interpreting it. We call it science, and it's lovely.

As for your accusations concerning my characterisations of God, let me repeat myself yet again in order to tell you that what I say about him is simply the upshot of the ludicrous (and quite presumptuous - sinful, I thought) claims made in his name by you and others when they are applied to reality. I don't have any God model in my brain at all. It's all your own doing.