Hares Bliks Strengths And Weaknesses

Question 1

Personal preference
Weakness

Answer 1

If religious beliefs are bliks then they cant be true or false and there’s no way of judging which one to follow other than personal preference

This reduces religious belief to personal preference

Question 2

They can be falsified
Weakness

Answer 2

Bliks can be falsified
But st paul wrote “if christ has not rises then your faith is pointless”

This suggests that statements can be falsified they are not bliks

Question 3

Dawkins
WEAKNESS

Answer 3

“Bliks or brainwashing?”

He criticises the teaching of religion yo children as indoctrination
You are teaching then to believe in something for which there is no evidence for

Question 4

Flew rejects hares non cognitive Bliks
Weakness quote

Answer 4

“If Hares religion really is Bliks, involving no cosmological assertions about nature and activities of supposed personal creator then surely he is not a christian at all”

Flew rejects hares non cognitive bliks because believers do see their statements about God as cognitive

Question 5

Hare allows religious language
STRENGTH

Answer 5

He lets religious language to be meaningful which makes sense of its influence on peoples lives