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Okay, but you said: "that would require assuming that the statement "Is there a god?" is both coherent, meaningful, and answerable." What part of this questio
by Thorentis 5y ago
Okay, but you said:
"that would require assuming that the statement "Is there a god?" is both coherent, meaningful, and answerable."
What part of this question is incoherent, unmeaningful, and unanswerable, if you are able to understand religion in an objective sense?
- aappleby 5y agoWhat's a god? How can I meaningfully ascribe any qualities whatsoever to a non-corporeal, non-perceptible entity? What does it even mean to ask if things that are outside of our universe "exist"? Etcetera etcetera. You can't even get past the superficial layers of "Is there a god?" without hitting questions that are ill-formed.
- theonething 5y ago> What does it even mean to ask if things that are outside of our universe "exist"? Maybe I'm missing something but that seems like a straightforward question to me. In a diagram, the universe is a circle. Does anything exist outside that circle?
- dbrueck 5y agoThat's fair. FWIW, many people (including myself) believe that God is both corporeal as well as perceptible, though the latter is on His terms (because, I suspect, He wants it to happen for each person individually).
- dragonwriter 5y ago> What part of this question is incoherent, unmeaningful, and unanswerable, “Is there a god?” > if you are able to understand religion in an objective sense? You (in the general rather than specific sense) are not.