Wittgenstein’s God
The contemporary debate between atheists and believers is premised on the idea that the word ‘God’ either represents something in the real world, or it does not.
Wittgensteinian approach to the debate begins by pointing out ‘God’ is a word that has different meanings in the context of different communities:
- ‘God’ used to articulate different facets of experience (‘It’s in God’s hands now’ or ‘When the sun rose, I felt the presence of God’).
- ‘God’ as a move in a social game, that expresses fidelity to a way of life
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