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Originally Posted by Martian
Naturally. Religion is based on faith. That's sort of the point. The invisible birthday cake argument (or your more colourful metaphor, the invisible anus fish) is a way of encapsulating that axiomatic. Trying to apply a purely rational approach to something that is not based on reason returns bad results.
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This is the ultimate point to Epicurus' riddle. Don't try to pretend that faith or religion is about logic, reason, or science. It's not. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it's the reality.
Every time I see a religious ontological argument or religious science, I get pissed. It's be like trying to discover the secrets of literature in a math classroom. It just doesn't work. So cut it out.