----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
There actually has been some fairly hard thinking on these matters, over a fair amount of time. Here's an example (from the late Oxford theologian Herbert McCabe):
You must deny the other gods and you must not treat Yahweh as a god, as a power you could use against your enemies or to help you succeed in life. Yahweh is not a god, there are no gods, they are all delusion and slavery. You are not to try to comprehend God within the conventions and symbols of your time and place; you are to have no image of God because the only image of God is man."
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"Anyone who says Jehovah..." [John Cleese]