The claims of the religious are false. Religious people would disagree with you here, I’d imagine.
I’m not so sure. I mean, it’s not like all religious people agree about religious claims, any more than all political activists agree about political claims, or all sports fans agree about claims regarding sports teams. In fact, quite the contrary… I suspect that most religious people believe that the religious claims of most religious people are false.
Fair enough, though religious people would surely disagree with the statement, “All religious claims are false”—which is what I interpreted electricfistula’s comment to mean.
Tangentially, I know a couple of Catholic seminarians who would disagree with “Most religious claims are false”—they argue that claims which contradict certain tenets of Catholicism aren’t religious claims at all, though the people making them may falsely believe them to be.
I’m not so sure.
I mean, it’s not like all religious people agree about religious claims, any more than all political activists agree about political claims, or all sports fans agree about claims regarding sports teams.
In fact, quite the contrary… I suspect that most religious people believe that the religious claims of most religious people are false.
Fair enough, though religious people would surely disagree with the statement, “All religious claims are false”—which is what I interpreted electricfistula’s comment to mean.
Yah.
Tangentially, I know a couple of Catholic seminarians who would disagree with “Most religious claims are false”—they argue that claims which contradict certain tenets of Catholicism aren’t religious claims at all, though the people making them may falsely believe them to be.