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"Religious Language is meaningless" - Coggle Diagram
"Religious Language is meaningless"
Philips
Contemporary Wittgenstein. It cannot be reasoned or justified, as it is just a game. However, when you are involved in a game, it becomes important.
Wittgenstein
Language games. Religious language gets its meaning while connecting it to societal rules and social situations. Following a certain set of rules. The meaning of the word is how it is used. Atheists are not a participant of religious language, as they do not believe in God. Following rules that have been subsequently internalised
Flew
Aquinas
Language is crucial for humans to communicate and convey meaning. Language is analogical and cannot capture the true essence of the celestial being God. However, it is meaningful for humans, as this is the limited capacity of their brains. Inherent limitations of human expression in an attempt to describe God.
Tillich
Religious language is only meaningful when in symbols. The cross for Christianity not only points to it, but it reminds them of the sacfrifice of Christ. God is the garden of all beings, all other languages one could talk about as art or poetry. It is a religious experience.
Ayer
Religious language holds a unique position, and yet it is meaningless. Uphold logical positivism, and the verification principle. Focus on analytic statements, and empirically proven statements. If not, then they are meaningless. Although logical positivism is limiting, things can be indirectly verifiable.
Hare
Religious language is an expression of beliefs, non-cognitive. As it is unfalsifiable, it is meaningless. Verificationism fails to understand religious statements. Universal prescriptivism. Persol feelings affect our beliefs and behaviour.
Mitchell
Agrees with Flew (me). Religious statements are unfalsifiable. You may not wholly prove God, but you should still trust him. Just have faith in God.
Bultmann
Religious language can be meaningful and yet is often misinterpreted. Modern views fo the world are far more scientific, as opposed to mythological. We cannot truly understand mythology and its place in religion, as we are in a different state. Confines God to our ideas of space-time. We should not attribute significance to myth, but use it to represent God and his power.
Dionysius
Moses
Swinburne
No logical positivists. Someone does not have to specify what is meaningful. To the individual, it is not meaningless. That does not mean that you cannot talk about the universe, even if you do not understand it fully. Used the analogy of how toys come out to play at night. We could never know.