ABSTRACT
One would not have to go far in contemporary philosophy of religion to hear or to read the following point of view: ‘A belief is true when it tallies with the facts. A belief tallies with the facts when it corresponds to reality. This applies to religious belief as much as to any other. It gives to religious belief its propositional character and its cognitive content. Without these, religious belief would be merely expressive: an attitude to life, or a preferred view of the world. What has to be emphasized is that there is a fact of the matter, and that reality is independent of anything we care to say or think’.
