I'm not sure it does. Not any more.
I appreciate an educator would have needed to use this kind of rhetoric in American society of the time, that outing yourself as an atheist was career suicide.
But it's not a direct answer. It's avoiding the question, or belittling the quality of the question and by extension the questioner. It sounds wise, but it's no wiser than a three year old repeating 'why?' to each of your answers.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:50,
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A god is a fictitious personification of nature, or of a natural force or forces, created by man to provide debate-stifling answers to questions beyond our understanding of the time.
IMO, Gods are best understood through the Marxist perspective, with the understanding that the creation and promotion of gods/religion affords power to those who control the religious narrative.
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So by your definition, God does exist (as a fictitious human construct).
I'd go for a simpler definition and say "God is a supernatural entity" and my position is that it does not exist.
But that is surely the problem that is being highlighted by Ignosticism; there are countless different definitions of "God", and without a commonly agreed definition, debating God's existence is meaningless.
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