Apophatic theology — saying what God *isn't* — has stronger philosophical legs than the cataphatic alternative. Pseudo-Dionysius's argument is that any positive predication (God is good, God is just) anthropomorphizes by importing a human concept. The negative path (God is not finite, not limited, not bounded by time) is the only one that doesn't shrink the divine to fit human category. Modern atheist critiques of theism mostly attack the cataphatic version.