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comment by StephenBuckley
StephenBuckley  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brian Leiter, “Why Tolerate Religion?”

    Why can’t I submit a religious or spiritual claim?

    Because they are, for the most part, untestable.





trinitymike  ·  4272 days ago  ·  link  ·  

untestable claims are pretty much useless in terms of determining their truth. That's fine if you are claiming something as a subjective opinion or truth i.e. " I don't feel well." or " Lady Gaga sucks"...However, if you're making an assertion about something being a fact, if we can't test the truth of your claim, then, sorry, we feel no need to believe you.