How do you Define God?
In ”Surely you’re be joking Mr. Feynman,” Feynman recounts an incident where a group of folks are discussing something (I forget the details) without defining the thing they are discussing about. Feynman, being an “outsider” does not know what exactly is going on. So, when its his turn, he simply asks them how would they define this thing. Each participant comes up with his or her own definition, and the discussion essentially leads nowhere; everyone leaves happy thinking that they gained significant insights.
This is exactly what happens when discussing god. No one clearly defines what god is. And deliberately so: god as a concept is undefinable. Is it any surprize that most discussions about god lead nowhere, and that we are back to square one after hours upon hours of discussions?
Take the case of The God Delusion, in the first chapter Dawkins takes on defining God. He does an excellent job to the extent that he uses that definition as a baseline for presenting his thesis in the remaining chapters.
What one does with the definition is of more interest than the definition itself.