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Comment by ryandv

12 hours ago

> If you want to define "god" as a definition for abstract concepts, I can't stop you, although I doubt many would agree.

This is extremely ignorant. God has been likened to an intellect since the days of the Neoplatonists and Aristotle himself as a "nous" or universal mind. Cosmological arguments necessitating the existence of this god as a "first cause" to avoid fallacies of infinite regress ended up rooting much of medieval theology and mainstream religious scholarship.

> The difference is that things like mathematics and identities are useful.

Civilizations have centered around the mental and social construct of gods since the era of Mesopotamian god-kings that built and organized society.