ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses different problems for religious belief based upon considerations of language. Religion seems to be in an even worse state as a discipline of human knowledge. The premise claims that religious assertions are neither analytic nor synthetic statements that could be empirically verified in principle. The claim that God exists is an interesting case because on one way of looking at the ontological argument, the statement "God exists" is analytic. Religious people qualify their understanding of God's love so that cases like the child's death no longer count as evidence against God's love. When Alvin Plantinga says that God exists, he would emphatically deny that all he's doing is adopting a perspective or a point of view. It is true that some religious people are closed-minded and won't allow any evidence to count against belief in God. If the positivists are correct, people have been misled by language into thinking that religious statements are meaningful.
