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=> Reza on religion....

Reza on religion....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, June 18 2015, 18:22:01 (UTC)
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He says that religion is simply the "language that we use to discuss the numinous, the metaphysical..."

Ok...but we can speak nonsense in that "language"....or sense. Poets talk sense, religious speak nonsense.

English, in this case, is the language we use to, say, discuss astronomy...but it is also the language with which we discuss astrology...one is sensible the other is nonsense.

In French, or any language, you can discuss the theory of gravity...it is a language to "discuss things with"....you can also use the French language, or any other, to discuss a theory of gravity which says god is a magnet and that's why we stick to the earth's surface....it can't be JUST a question of a language used, or which language is used..it matters a great deal what you SAY in that language...and the religious speak in tongues, not languages.

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