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Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
Yes, I think it is a category error. Is that the right expression?
But I make a further point. Vernon's God may indeed be a fantasy. But it is a fantasy unsupported by dogma, or a tyranny. Nor could a tyranny make much use of a God that no-one, (my seven year thinks I need a hyphen there), including the tyrant that no-one can know the nature or will of.
Its my fantasy verses your fantasy.
Vernon's God like the Earth in Hitch Hikers is mostly harmless.
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