• possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Then we can all just forget about him and be just as well for it, no? Maybe even better for the lack of religious violence?

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          1 year ago

          Well he’s saying the concept god is a metaphor. Not a literal “Him”. But yes, better to think of all religions as metaphor and not take it literally.

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            1 year ago

            I was being cheeky. There is also a jump from the infinitely intriguing metaphor, to a religion with rituals and leaders. And there is a difference between a deist god and the one’s who have supposed interactions which literature can be written and sermons given about. I recognize that I skipped all of that to throw a little shade.