(urth) Oannes

[James Wynn]

On 3/19/2012 2:57 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
> OTOH, perhaps the Roman household gods were like that---not the family 
> ancestors, but the little guys you'd nod to as you stepped over the 
> threshold or stoked the fire in the hearth. Nobody expected them to 
> speak, but the domain of each was limited to a few square feet. 

And Dan'l Danehy-Oakes also wrote:
> It seems to me that the God of Deism is pretty close to an impersonal
> finite God.

I don't think this is what is meant by an "impersonal god" when 
comparing it with, say, Zen Buddhism.
I think "impersonal" doesn't mean a Person who is uncommunicative. It 
means a Person who is "not a personality"...a person who is not "aware" 
at any time in any sense as we would define it.
Deism only argues that the Creator doesn't respond to personal requests 
or is even absent. I think the hearth gods were conceived as actual 
persons even though they had no prophets.

J.