Thread by @EveKeneinan

Let’s talk about PROPERLY BASIC BELIEFS.

1 All human beings, by virtue of their natural cognitive powers—if functioning normally—are fully epistemically justified in believing in the physical world.
2 This does not make them physicists.

[cont.]

Similarly,

1 All human beings, by virtue of their natural cognitive powers—if functioning normally—are fully epistemically justified in believing in the God.
2 This does not make them theologians.

In neither case is rational warrant undermined by lack of a discursive proof, nor demands for the same by others—although in the case of God, there are such proofs.

But these miss the point.

The unbeliever who is OUTRAGED that religion is accorded special status rationally ought to more outraged that science is—since science purports to “study NATURE,” an alleged something, hard to define, the existence of which cannot be discursively proven.

But such demands for proof are absurd—they always already come too late: the one demanding proof of the world or God already exists in the world, oriented or misoriented towards God.

All such efforts are based on the confusion of a category mistake:

Nature is wrongly taken to be ‘some kind of natural thing .’

God is wrongly taken to be ‘some being among beings.’

Reflect:

Nature—physis—is not a thing physical thing in nature.

Truth is not a truth.

Being is not a being.

Space is not located in space.

Time is not found ‘at some time.’

God is not a creature or like any creature. Even to say “God exists” is to reduce God to a being.