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Very warm. Very fuzzy...

Actually, Spot's hot and sheds a lot.

You're a little closer to Disney, in your thinking! He always did a good job with fantasy and fiction! Yours seems a little more earthy!

William James in "Varieties of Religious Experience" taught that we probably made a mistake when we ditched pantheism for monotheism. His idea was that people could more readily identify with a more personalized notion of the Gods. So, I take no offense at the notion that God might be better marketed in a multiplicity of identities that better serves our consumer society.

On the other hand, James also taught that when we attempt to explain or comprehend the notion of sacred mystery it will always be More and always beyond our capacity of fully knowing. This is, of course, my fundamental issue with IG. In trying to fight science they turn a sacred mystery of unknowing into an attempted scientific formulation to try and explain what we do not know. I have no idea if IG is good science. I do know that it is dreadful theology.