The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73015   Message #1264360
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
04-Sep-04 - 05:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Religion Rubbish?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion Rubbish?
Little Hawk said (in relevant part):

Are you aware that religion and spirituality can be two separate matters? Are you further aware that all people are religious about something? And that all serious questions are (at some level) spiritual questions?

That was three questions, and my comments are as follows:

"Can be" two separate matters. Since I've always been unsure what is meant by "spirituality", I'll say they "can be".

"All people are religious about something".   Wha?   This would be a matter of definition, and when you say "all people" it becomes totally impossible to check the truth or falsity of the statement. Both "religious" and "something" provide such extreme wiggle room that the proponent of the "All people are" statement can never, even in theory, be driven to the wall.

"And that all serious questions are (at some level) spiritual questions". Define "serious".   Define "spiritual". And then "(at some level)" makes the whole statement so vague as to be totally uncheckable.

Then backing up to the introduction to the three questions: "Are you aware"....   This implies that these three statements are really true beyond argument.

Dave Oesterreich