Originally Posted By: terrytnewzealand
But shouldn't we also include less desirable emotions in this expanded concept of God?

No (at least, it doesn't fit my hypothetical description), because they aren't 'life enhancing principles', but merely the absence of same. It's analogous to saying that food is life enhancing, and 'anti-food' isn't - anti-food doesn't exist; it's a false concept. There's either food, or the lack of food.

I couldn't call it 'an expanded concept of God'. It's an unembellished concept in that it calls for neither religious belief nor evidence of supernatural causation.

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