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by yummyfajitas 6552 days ago
All reasoning requires some unprovable axioms. That's Godel's incompleteness theorem. A religious person can simply take the divinity of jesus (or whatever) as an axiom and use reason from that point onward.
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> All reasoning requires some unprovable axioms. That's Godel's incompleteness theorem.

No, that's just reasoning. Godel's theorem is about the limitations of what you can build upon those axioms.

I'm not sure those limitations even matter much. What use is being able to prove "this statement is unprovable"?

But a non-believer can attack that axiom through historical record or the definition of divinity and point out how Jesus fell short (prophecies, etc). So if the axiom is falsifiable it is useless.
Or I could just assume that all objects fall upwards is an axiom and then try to reason my way around to explain gravity!