Question three was borked. Rewritten to actually cover all the bases, and not be internally contradictory. Apologies to the 7 people who already filled it in!
The problem being a need for a definition of "God"...
I like "culturally postulated supernatural being", myself. It lets you include anima and the Buddha without including psychics and UFOs, which conveniently matches up with the most-common definition of "religion".
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Date: 2009-07-10 02:22 pm (UTC)The problem being a need for a definition of "God"...
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Date: 2009-07-10 02:30 pm (UTC)I like "culturally postulated supernatural being", myself. It lets you include anima and the Buddha without including psychics and UFOs, which conveniently matches up with the most-common definition of "religion".
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:02 pm (UTC)Just found that.
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Date: 2009-07-11 04:13 pm (UTC)