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Theological noncognitivism

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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Edwin McCravy (talk | contribs) at 13:47, 13 July 2018 (What has been published here contains many errors, because it was not written by theological noncognitivist. Most people have trouble understanding just what theological noncognitivism really is. There are so very few theological noncognitivists in existence. I know of only one other theological noncognitivist. He lives in Australia. That's why no sites are available to list as sources.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Overview

Theological noncognitivists claim that they are not able to understand why theists, atheists, and agnostics all seem to believe that the theists' capitalized row of three alphabet letters "God", when spoken or written by Christians, Jews or Muslims, is a meaningful word. Theological noncognitivists do not claim, as do atheists, that "God" refers to something nonexistent. They do not claim to know of any reason to believe "God" refers to anything at all, whether existent or nonexistent. In other words, theological noncognitivists claim that atheists believe "God" is like the meaningful word "unicorn", whicdh refers to something nonexistent. However, theological noncognitivists claim not to know of any reason to believe that. Instead they claim not to see any difference between "God" and, say, the meaningless row of alphabet letters "Gop" -- except for:

  1. 1. the last letter of "Gop" is "p" and not "d",

and

  1. 2. theological noncognitivists have observed that"God" seems to cause theists to get into a certain emotional state of humbleness, fear and awe, whereas "Gop" doesn't seem to have that or any effect upon theists.

The final analysis is that theological noncognitivists claim not to be able to observe any difference(s) between "God" and "Gop", other than the above two.

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