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>If the devil exists in the understanding, we could imagine him to be greater by existing in reality. That, like with God, is a logical jump. Who said reality > understanding? Reality could be == understanding (e.g. all, including what we conceive as matter, is just thought), or understanding could be discreet but greater than reality (and e.g. reality being a fossilized, realized, and constrained version of one path in the realm of understanding). >At which point we must conclude that it is a shame that theology has captured the minds of so many brilliant people. What you cited is based philosophy and logical argumentation, one of the cornerstones of civilization. And theology had quite a role in shaping it, along with the rest of civilization. Just because the starting points and assumptions are bad, it doesn't make the mechanism bad. For that matter, just because a mechanism is bad, it doesn't make it less useful (e.g. a population could be more agreeable, civilized, and moral when believing in a higher power, even if that higher power is BS, not to mention other benefits at the civic and personal level. See [1] for an example of such thinking). [1] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129528... |