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'Religious Language is about Facts' Discuss Peter Vardy says in "The Puzzle of God" that if we had lived a thousand years ago, a flat world would have been a known fact. Today it is a known fact that the world is round. The wasn't any less round a thousand years ago than it is today, but the tests for truth have changed. What it means to be a 'fact' changes according to the viewpoint of the observer Brian Davis, in his "Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion", says that just because we talk about an eternal being does necessarily give meaning to that to which we refer, and that even as we can talk about ghost and other supernatural entities without believing in them, this can also apply to God. Given these ideas it is clear that not everyone would agree on the factual content of religious...

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