ABSTRACT
Religious propositions have a peculiar characteristic about them in that they frequently impel believers to take specific actions, in terms not only of personal reform of character but in terms of expressing opinions on social issues. The most generally understood aspect of religious propositions in themselves is that they are on the face of it unbelievable; as philosopher Susan Haack states, they "lack compelling evidence". Religious propositions come in a range of what can be termed plausibility, some of which possess a high degree of plausibility, such as the existence of God, and others that directly confront human experience and reason, such as the account of Moses splitting the Red Sea. Axiom systems designate a set of interrelated propositions, exemplified by Euclid's Geometry and other such attempts to organize a complex field of study into a comprehensive and tightly knit logical structure.
