Anyone who anthropomorphises God is acting and thinking as a child, like as though to their prototypes of parent figures. You can't have a rational argument with a child wrapped in an adult body. Intangibility is not a counterargument. Numbers, words, ideas, principles. None are tangible. Love is not tangible. Like the wind, it acts in ways outside of what we can apprehend. Getting cranky over a word used to describe a highly abstract principle is a waste of your time. Most religions essentially boil down to cult franchises, as far as their beliefs have no practical utility. Forget the words. If you don't feel the wind and wonder at it's invisible touch as if you will let yourself have the peace of recognising the unity of the universe, and the awe at the intricate, completely thought out things. Isn't it still amazing that somewhere along the line our ancestors emerged from mud and speciated, differentiated, agglomerated and symbiotically became interdependent, and then we appear, and in 200k years of history, we appeared and have scarcely changed. To the religious, that awe is sacred. The biggest problem with being a materialist is you are forbidden this kind of joy. Matter just eventually degrades into beta particles and entropy, right? No love, no hope, no life. I'd rather see it as a battle against entropy, that all life is part of, and our survival every day is a victory and a blessing.

This just proves my point. You're assuming I'm against things that are outside what a/theism is. I don't disagree with what you're describing. Nor do I disageee with the likes of Alan Watts or eastern philosophies. I just wouldn't call it God. Many eastern "religions" are also referred to as philosophies. There are atheists who have mindfulness apps that have entire lectures and interviews about these subjects. I don't like when a conversation breaks down into semantics, but there needs to be a basic definition of a word which we start from. Otherwise you get this.

Being that anthropomorphisation is common among the most aburd of common christian dogma, as is the plainly pagan Christmas and easter crap, and the holy Trinity, you probably wonder which kind of christians are like this. Not Catholics. Not most protestants. And the Catholics sure are sitting on those dead sea scrolls. The few fragments I know from them clearly show that the real, pre Catholic christians did not believe in either the crucifixion, and all that easter rubbish, they believed in the direct personal contact with the Divine, and then there is gnostics as well. I don't think that it is a coincidence that Tao, Deus/Deo and Chaos all have the e-o and the T/D glottal stop, and a final S. And Lao Tzu was not a historical man, and neither was Jesus. People who think of God as a super powered big grumpy angry gramps in the sky are just projecting their child image of parents into a justification for their abusive, arbitrary authoritarianism. Who would seriously want to believe in such a depressing, violent and partial God?? It's literally the image of the Adversary, this kind of carving up the natural uncarved block of humanity. Which reminds me, one of the historically verifiable writers of Taoism, Chuang Tzu, invented the image of our nature as like a tree, and brainwashing and authoritarianism tries to cut is into boards for them to walk all over. One of the most famous fragments of the dead sea scrolls literally uses the Taoist wood metaphor, in relation to where the Divine nature is visible. Inside. And omnipresent. This does not comport with the Babylonian incest story of samirimus, Marduk and nimrod, that is the basis of Trinity doctrine, and the easter, the crucifixion, even older as a myth of the sun god. That ridiculous Psy op called the Venus project points this out but basically they twist it and claim these are original christian beliefs. They are not. I was raised SDA and every year there was a discussion about how the supposed christian festivals are all about the sun god. The very same one who demanded human sacrifice in ancient central and south America. Huitapotli or something. Also feathered, dragon like, and a creature of deception. And all of these go back to Sumeria, and the concept behind Zionism was literally an ancient war propaganda campaign, that still seems to be waged by certain ethnicities who were once enemies of most of the middle east. Sheesh. I forget sometimes what utter lies are the content of much of christian beliefs. Jesus was a story made out of a bunch of other stories, and then the Roman establishment pretended conversion and then bit by bit made Christianity a clandestine polytheistic cult with people calling Mary the mother of God. I mainly just wanted to remind you that this theism you speak of has been so muddied and twisted for political purposes it's no wonder it's kinda insulting. But Christianity never lost the most important thing: it is a religion about laughing at fear, and preferring life and retreat to subjugation and death. It is a religion that refuses to recognise political authority. It was the basis of the British system of equity jurisprudence, which is basically pure capitalism. And as Nick Szabo points out, christians invented the idea of voluntary employment as the default, and opposed slavery. When you think of christians, the real ones are Amish and gnostics and draft dodgers, tax avoiders, there was plenty of them on the underground railroad, my grandfather helped smuggle food to Jews being hidden by his church fellows. The christians who protested against the Vietnam war, and who are endlessly talking about the banking conspiracy. If you ask me, it's clearly an offshoot of Taoism, and so is Buddhism, and look at the timeline.1000BC was taoism. 500bc was Buddhism. And then we had Christianity, and then Islam, all in a sequence, all of them further and further west. I'd even say that Bitcoin Maximalism is a variant on the same theme. Do we really know it was one guy? Nope. Just like Jesus and Lao Tzu. An imaginary person cannot be martyred. The movement around them is protected by this illusion. And it's fundamental belief is that no human authority shall be feared, that the judge you don't want against you is not in this world and hates humans who ape him with their megalomania. That's all my own personal theory. At yes, theory is also another of these t e o words.a paradigm is a thesis, or a theory. And Tao is the way. Like a theory, and tied to some aspect of our senses, aesthesis... I like my theory. It was built from my desire to join all the dots. It's good enough for me, combined with my recurrent anecdotal experiences. I'm sure it's a collection of ideas you won't find many other people to share it with you.