I should hesitate to say I dislike new theists since I am just celebrating my anniversary here. But I do.
The discussion is getting so weird I can't tell theists from the atheists lately.
Awesome. When you can no longer tell, or care, if your fur is on the outside or the inside ... you have arrived! Bear-Zen.
GIA and I are very close to secular. Neither of us fit the Evangelical Christian bug-bear that some of you are so familiar with. GIA would say ... choose an ideal god, as an idol, to pull you forward to better things. Fight against lesser idols. I would say, no idols for me (Jewish side of me). Look at life as it is, with all the horror. Like Rick in Rick & Morty. In other words, GIA is a psychology based progressive ... without the epistemological fundamentalism. He is pragmatic in his way, not an ideologue.
I am just like him, psychology based, but not a progressive, a realist. There are good days, there are bad days ... but don't overestimate how much you can force reality to give you more good days, because you are just road kill on the highway of life. Just because things seem to be better now than 500 years ago, is just prejudice. Just because I would tend to prefer my own time, isn't proof either. We get the cards we are dealt. Put your shekels into the pot and play, or fold.
