My caveat wasn't addressed to Salyavin. And Xeno missed the point of my post because he's more interested in trolling than in understanding. The theistic concept of God is not peculiar to the Judeo-Christian religions. << In posting this quotation, where did Salyavin say or even imply this was 'an argument in favor of believing in Brahman'? There may be a category error in this quotation, but there is a significant context shift in the point you are making and the point Salyavin was making. Roberts' argument seems to apply to the way the typical believer thinks of the concept of god. You are making a different argument here, off topic. No Hindu concepts of reality were stated in the quotation. My guess it was aimed at the Judeo-Christian-Islamic conceptions of god, but even those are not specified. >>
One example of a Christian response (which does not hit the nail on the head) to this very quotation is: 'I understand perfectly why Stephen F Roberts and Christopher Hitchens reject all the other gods. It is because they reject polytheism. But I don’t understand how this parallels to the rejection of the Christian God. It is a slight of hand to make such a comparison (effective as it may be). People believe in these two completely different things for completely different reasons and, therefore, must reject the two differently. The same arguments used against these gods cannot be used effectively against the Christian God. Once polytheism as a worldview is rejected, all the millions of gods go with it. I don’t have to argue against each, one at a time.' —C Michael Patton The idea that the Christian concept god is exempt because it is special in some way, is not a good argument, but that does not somehow make Roberts' argument shine any better. Isaac Asimov's argument for atheism, as an example of another way to handle this, is not a logical one, but one of practicality: 'Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.'
