To echo scientists who say that something is “Not Even Wrong” if its untestable and/or non-scientific to the point of being incomprehensible, my position on the whole religion question is one that I tend to call Ignosticism in which I say that religions definitions of God are so self-contradictory that I don’t even know what they mean by God.
Generally, when some asks if I believe in God, I tell them to define it. When they ask me why, I ask them if they believe in Frub. If so, why? If not, why? Without me giving them a definition, how can they possibly give a rational answer.
Well, sure. By the time the Untheists had talked with any theist from our world for a short period of time, they would deduce that “God” could not be cashed out as a consistent model of anything but rather consisted of the conversational rule “Agree with extreme positive statements”.
To echo scientists who say that something is “Not Even Wrong” if its untestable and/or non-scientific to the point of being incomprehensible, my position on the whole religion question is one that I tend to call Ignosticism in which I say that religions definitions of God are so self-contradictory that I don’t even know what they mean by God.
Generally, when some asks if I believe in God, I tell them to define it. When they ask me why, I ask them if they believe in Frub. If so, why? If not, why? Without me giving them a definition, how can they possibly give a rational answer.
Well, sure. By the time the Untheists had talked with any theist from our world for a short period of time, they would deduce that “God” could not be cashed out as a consistent model of anything but rather consisted of the conversational rule “Agree with extreme positive statements”.