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President Bush reached out today to Christians and Jews celebrating Easter and Passover with some of the most religious language he has ever used in public.
Hume regarded most religious language as unverifiable by experiment and so dismissed it.
It proposes that most religious language is unfalsifiable because there is no way that it could be empirically proven false.
Peter Donovan argues that most religious language is not about making truth-claims; instead, it is used to achieve certain goals.
For example, the words "I promise" perform the action of promising themselves – Donovan argues that most religious language fulfils this function.
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But what this modernizing ignores is that the most powerful religious language is often a little elevated and incantatory, even ambiguous or just plain hard to understand.
The pastor of Jubilee Family Church, Bill Tvedt, had all but endorsed Mrs. Bachmann from the altar, stopping short of telling the faithful whom to vote for but extolling her in the most flattering religious language as "a great expositor of the word of God".
Most activists were disturbed by any religious language that undermined what they saw as an inclusive, secular street movement.
This makes the current climate more hospitable to religious language than it was for most of the twentieth century.
And most important are questions about the nature and use of religious language for pointing to a mystery that can never be captured in human words.
In early May 1918 US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory condemned The Finished Mystery as "one of the most dangerous examples of... propaganda... a work written in extremely religious language and distributed in enormous numbers".
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