At 08:47 PM 3/24/2010, Chris Doss wrote:
>75% of threads are people talking past each other, but I think in the case
>of religion ones it's more like 95%. For instance, when I say "theism" I'm
>usually thinking of highly sophisticated bodies of doctrine and the
>ontological argument(s) and Five Ways and so forth, whereas I suspect
>other people think I'm talking about evangelist idiocy and the twaddle
>that is taught in Sunday School. Or, when I say "God," I mean "the first
>cause" or "the ground of Being," not "guy in the sky with superpowers"
>(i.e., the pseudo-god of the Fundamentalists).