[ExI] atheism

[Ben Zaiboc]

> From: Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/12/13 Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com>
> 
> > Wait, you say you are not a Zeus atheist (you think he
> is real), and do not
> > accord him the same status as Yahweh (so you think
> yahweh is not real)?
> >
> > You have three categories of reality, one in which
> Zeus belongs (real), one
> > for your keyboard (somehow differently real), and one
> for Yahweh (presumably
> > not real)?
> >
> > I don't understand why Yahweh and Zeus aren't grouped
> together.
> >
> >
> Because I have issues with any entity whose "existence"
> would be implicit in
> (and necessitated by) its "essence", and who would exists
> and still not be
> part of the world (the world being obviously defined in my
> mind as the set
> of all the things that exist).
> 
> Now, all that is applicable, AFAIK, to the very concept of
> Yahweh, Allah, or
> the Holy Trinity; but not to Zeus - nor for that matter to
> Spiderman or the
> Great Gatsby.

Sorry, I don't get it.

Surely all these things are in the same category: products of human imagination?

What various different people imagine these imaginary things' different properties are, is irrelevant.  None of them are real.

Ben Zaiboc