That’s true. I think that’s why I put “God” in scare quotes. I used “Blort” as a proper name, too, as a halfway house for making the point. I’m trying to bring the reader along step by step.

In an upcoming article where I go over similar issues, I talk of the theistic God as a hybrid between the philosophical abstraction and the folk personification. So the proper name “God” is vestigial if what we really mean is just the philosophical abstraction of absolute being or the First Cause or something like that.