RE: What is Ignosticism?
October 6, 2018 at 10:17 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2018 at 10:19 pm by Belacqua.)
(October 6, 2018 at 9:52 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I think we all agree that God as described by the bible cannot exist. Unless you can convince yourself that the 620 + contractions in the bible are just God not using his autocorrect properly.
This rules out sola scriptura literalism.
Which leaves us to deal with nearly all theology ever written.
(October 6, 2018 at 9:59 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Concepts don't have to be coherent to refer. An invisible pink unicorn is incoherent, but it's not at all unclear as to what it refers to.
Yes -- an important thing to keep in mind.
I guess we need to consider whether the opposite (sort of) is also true: are there real things to which no human concepts usefully refer?
Does an inability to conceive of something rule that thing out?