Anyone who anthropomorphises God is acting and thinking as a child, like as though to their prototypes of parent figures. You can't have a rational argument with a child wrapped in an adult body.
Intangibility is not a counterargument.
Numbers, words, ideas, principles. None are tangible. Love is not tangible.
Like the wind, it acts in ways outside of what we can apprehend.
Getting cranky over a word used to describe a highly abstract principle is a waste of your time.
Most religions essentially boil down to cult franchises, as far as their beliefs have no practical utility.
Forget the words. If you don't feel the wind and wonder at it's invisible touch as if you will let yourself have the peace of recognising the unity of the universe, and the awe at the intricate, completely thought out things.
Isn't it still amazing that somewhere along the line our ancestors emerged from mud and speciated, differentiated, agglomerated and symbiotically became interdependent, and then we appear, and in 200k years of history, we appeared and have scarcely changed.
To the religious, that awe is sacred.
The biggest problem with being a materialist is you are forbidden this kind of joy. Matter just eventually degrades into beta particles and entropy, right? No love, no hope, no life.
I'd rather see it as a battle against entropy, that all life is part of, and our survival every day is a victory and a blessing.
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