Morton on God

 
Morton 70: "if there were a god of some kind, that god couldn't be omnipresent or omniscient because it couldn't be constantly present, because such a being wouldn't comprise a whole of which we are the components"
 
71: "Feuerbach argued that religious statements such as 'God is love' are alienated expressions of human powers [...] Debugged Feuerbachian ideology theory would proclaim that the seemingly paranormal superpowers displaced onto an explosively holist superbeing are common to all lifeforms, and, since there is no convenient way to contain the concept of non-life within a thin, rigid boundary, to all beings whatsoever"
 
is that right, though? Morton doesn't see humans as "omniscient"--his hyperobjects are "impossible for humans to see or touch directly," so how can "God is omniscient" be a statement of an alienated human power, or indeed a power belonging to any being?
> from Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017)

> tagged with #alienation, #god

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