(September 2, 2019 at 1:52 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(September 1, 2019 at 6:33 pm)Belaqua Wrote: My Latin is next to non-existent. (I meant to say that in the past, in general, when Dawkins talks about theology he makes a lot of mistakes.)
Does the quote translate to something like: "What theology says is not clear, and when it's clear it's false"?
That's a very big claim. Does it mean to include ALL of theology? Is it true, by definition, that no statement in the field of theology can be both clear and true?
Well, approximately. It's supposed to say: "Theology has never said anything, that is not obvious, and that isn't false." (Though I don't know if I translated that correctly.)
Perhaps, if there is some ambiguity (and I don't think that there is, especially in the context in which Dawkins said it), it would be a good thing to paraphrase that as "Theology has never said anything that is neither obvious nor false.", and translate that with some even more complicated grammatical structure involving "neque" and subjunctives.
I think I found the original:
Quote:When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious?
https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/quotatio...s_god.html
