God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.
Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rigorous formal logic to tease out its implications. Stark himself points out that __heology consists of formal reasoning about God._ This is admirably exact. Theologians, beginning with a wished-for creation of their own minds, analyze that creation__ characteristics by rigorous application of the principles of formal__hat is, deductive__ogic.
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Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rigorous formal logic to tease out its implications. Stark himself points out that __heology consists of formal reasoning about God._ This is admirably exact. Theologians, beginning with a wished-for creation of their own minds, analyze that creation__ characteristics by rigorous application of the principles of formal__hat is, deductive__ogic.
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