Fantastic article and content and brilliant to see openminded and rigorous thought and argument on this.
Just one thing bothers me
"We're calling on the SAME Person and the SAME All Eternal, All Existing One. We're not calling on a One that doesn't exist... like the pagans do."
I was really surprised to see this from an evidently erudite, educated and openminded individual. what you mean by the generalisation "pagan" is naturally unclear. However, given that most belief systems you could categorise as paganism are primarily pantheistic and contain major elements of the dialectic monism evidenced also accross the historical spectrum of the judeo christian tradition and explicit within qabalistic traditions, I feel that it is a bit uncharitable to take this view.
Personally I was with you as far as:
"We're calling on the SAME Person and the SAME All Eternal, All Existing One. We're not calling on a One that doesn't exist"
maybe some of us sometimes focus on individual aspects that manifest from the single self existing one that is the yod of all, however, that does not separate those aspects from the whole. It means that we are looking at one apple, not the whole tree, nor maybe considering the seed from which the tree came. but in the eating, we shall still find the seed in the end.
All existing is all existing. everything must be part of it, by definition and thence comes god is love, I suppose.
Thanks,
Ben
