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"Assess the view that religious language is meaningless."
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Sandy Ritchie 10th October 2002 "Assess the view that religious language is meaningless." In recent times one of the most compelling and interesting arguments against God and religion has come from linguistic philosophy. In very basic terms the argument points out the fact that religion must necessarily use language in order to express abstract ideas such as God, love and so on, and in doing so commits a fallacy because as soon as such ideas are put into words they become meaningless. However, this is a rather large generalisation; the specific arguments go into a lot more detail and most vary in some way from this basic idea. Before we look at these arguments, though, I feel it is necessary to emphasise just how important an argument this is for religious believers, as it shakes the very foundations of religion. Religious language has until recently been taken as unequivocal, absolute truth, and...
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