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...? What?Atheists, if not God, than what do you mean by word God ?
I know that its very difficult to accept this truth....? What?
When don't atheist mean God by God.
Do you mean that we have the "concept of god" which we don't believe to have a relevant real counterpart in the universe vs having a concept of god that does?Atheists, if not God, than what do you mean by word God ?
If not God, than what do you mean by the concept of God ?Do you mean that we have the "concept of god" which we don't believe to have a relevant real counterpart in the universe vs having a concept of god that does?
When.don't atheist mean god.by.god?If not God, than what do you mean by the concept of God ?
Please don't preach to me it's disrespectful and against the rules. I was asking for clarification on the op.I know that its very difficult to accept this truth.
But, yes, it is true, my brother.
I mean deity. As is, anything anyone decides to call "God", "deity", "Kami", "Deva", or whatever.Atheists, if not God, than what do you mean by word God ?
Are you asking athiest if we have our own definition of God if not the God of abrahamic faith (or another faith maybe state)?Atheists, if not God, than what do you mean by word God ?
Exactly what I said. It is a concept. All anyone can talk about is the concept. There are different beliefs about how "real" the concept is in the universe but everyone talks about the same general thing which is a concept.If not God, than what do you mean by the concept of God ?
Atheists tend to have really bad definitions of God, often heard from believers that have really bad definitions of God, if they had a really good definition of God, they might become believers.
...? What?
When don't atheist mean God by God.
I know that its very difficult to accept this truth.
But, yes, it is true, my brother.
Atheists tend to have really bad definitions of God, often heard from believers that have really bad definitions of God, if they had a really good definition of God, they might become believers.
Why mix Tao with God, when Tao stands on it's own? God would only add confusion to it. As you say, it has not that much to do with the God of the Christian OT.Well for one thing, reading Lao Tzu's Tao te Ching, I find my view of God closer to the Tao, than the Abrahamic God of the Old Testament, I've argued with several atheists on this forum who tell me God doesn't exist but they believe in the Tao, followed by "there is nothing divine or Godlike about the Tao", I disagree.
I don't know what dhammakaya is, but can't you accept that some Buddhists don't want to use the word God for that?In Buddhism I see the emptiness and the dhammakaya coming the closest to my understanding of God. So I definitely don't agree with many western Buddhists that see Buddhism as an atheist religion.
That question would bother me, if I were an atheist, tbh. I mean, if I say that I don't believe in ''god'', then it seems pretty plain to me. No concept of ''god''..I think he means an atheist saying "God does not exist" means what?
Define the word god in the sentence "god does not exist".