[ExI] test

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sat Jan 29 21:01:21 UTC 2011


On 1/29/2011 2:56 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> I get intermittently rejected. Let's try again.

Weird. Okay, let's try again with my post sent 2 hours ago:

On 1/29/2011 12:45 PM, spike wrote:

 > Before we can agree on a definition of atheist, we must be able to 
agree on
 > a definition of god.

A being that is self-subsistent, aware and volitional, and ontologically 
and etiologically prior to the observable contingent universe that it 
has brought into existence.

That's a very abstract Greek model, and very different from the Roman 
deities and many other weakly godlike entities in various cultures. But 
it's what most Western theologicans posit.

Damien Broderick



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