Monday, 25 October 2010
Fragment of a thought (on Faith)
How much of current religious belief is merely this: The investing of a proposition with all one's hopes and wishful thinking, a proposition which is only coherent within a certain language game, but which corresponds with nothing in the world, nothing but the proposition itself? Within the circularity of one's proposition there is no 'fact' but the fact of one's proposition. There is, therefore, no truth but the desperate repetition of a worn out phrase: 'God exists.'
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yes, this is a surprise! but then, should you not change your proposition? What need have you to search for the real? The real would only put out the carousel and destroy the carnival athmophere.An atheist by theway is a misnomer
ReplyDeleteoops!! i forget what... anyway, a theologian is no more credent than an atheist. they differs only in that the atheist is self confident and not in need of a divine guide and strenght while the theologian needs it but being analitical rather naturally simpleminded believer, he is forced to supplant or compensate his lack of faith with intellectual conviction. Hahhah! The difference really is that the theologian seeks to know that god exist, while the atheist knows that he doesn't exist. and on and on games we play
ReplyDeleteBy "real" I mean precisely here the investigation of the signification: "God exists"
ReplyDeleteThe "truth" of the signifier is the signifier itself. This is the "real" of the situation: the naming of an empty set.
I have little patience for those who take God's name in vain.