"No religion as practiced has presented a credible argument for the existence of God."
Well, I don't know every religion as practiced, so I can't really address such a claim, beyond the fact that as a logician, I find universal quantifiers to be deeply suspicious. ( "No X is Y" is the same as "All X is Not Y…
"No religion as practiced has presented a credible argument for the existence of God."
Well, I don't know every religion as practiced, so I can't really address such a claim, beyond the fact that as a logician, I find universal quantifiers to be deeply suspicious. ( "No X is Y" is the same as "All X is Not Y", and that "All X" is a universal quantifier.) Universals can work in mathematics, but that's because mathematics gets to freely legislate what the universe is like. Within the scope of some specific discussion, that is.
That said, I would agree that, as far as I've seen, most religions are painfully narrow and poorly thought out. Most. I know of a few, as practiced, that admit of as much, and hold that their purpose is not to legislate God, but discover God. These are the same folks who do wacky things like openly embrace the teachings of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, person who do not self-identify as CIS, etc.
Per King, I remind you (all) that secularists played no meaningful role in the American Civil Rights movement. The only way you can globally damn all religion is to also damn that movement (which, if you participated in at all, it was on the coat tails of the religionists whom you declare must be universally damned.)
Let me take this one more step.
"No religion as practiced has presented a credible argument for the existence of God."
Well, I don't know every religion as practiced, so I can't really address such a claim, beyond the fact that as a logician, I find universal quantifiers to be deeply suspicious. ( "No X is Y" is the same as "All X is Not Y", and that "All X" is a universal quantifier.) Universals can work in mathematics, but that's because mathematics gets to freely legislate what the universe is like. Within the scope of some specific discussion, that is.
That said, I would agree that, as far as I've seen, most religions are painfully narrow and poorly thought out. Most. I know of a few, as practiced, that admit of as much, and hold that their purpose is not to legislate God, but discover God. These are the same folks who do wacky things like openly embrace the teachings of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, person who do not self-identify as CIS, etc.
Per King, I remind you (all) that secularists played no meaningful role in the American Civil Rights movement. The only way you can globally damn all religion is to also damn that movement (which, if you participated in at all, it was on the coat tails of the religionists whom you declare must be universally damned.)