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The biggest problem with using the English word "God" is it is loaded with assumptions, beliefs, and huge variability from one person to another.

Just uttering the word "God" to someone will create an entirely different mental image for that person than for you (despite similarities or differences of life experience and belief).

Thus, any discussion about God starts from the beginning with a huge gulf between the parties involved.

You can see it right here in this thread and the way people are responding to the use of the word God.



And yet it was the only way to speak about these topics in the 17th century when Spinoza was writing.




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