Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes: >Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> writes: >> So when we think of the powers of the gods, we need to ramp down our >> opinions. They're powerful all right, but they're not Gods. >Disagree. They don't strike me as being all that different from, say, >many of the Greek gods. Correct, and that's what I was aiming at. I'd intended the contrast with the more omniscient/opmnipotent sort of thing that current Western thinking tends to assign to God, rather than gods (note capitalization).