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[Bible] Episode 240: Dan McClellan - Why God Is Like a Hotdog

The Bible For Normal People

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The Problem With Definition

The practice of definition is one of those. That comes from an Aristotelian notion of categories, this idea that a category is binary. So I guess what you're contending against is like an artificial imposition of categories for thinking about how the deity is conceptualizedthat doesn't really take into account these fuzzy boundaries. And so yeah, the whole define a woman thing is just an example of people misusing this philosophical framework that is really entirely inadequate for performing the work that they want to do.

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