[MD] The End of Faith

[David M]

Wiki on Margolis:


Joseph Margolis, in Historied Thought, Constructed World (California,
1995), makes  a distinction between "existence" and "reality". He suggests 
using the
term "exists" only for those things which adequately exhibit Pierce's 
Secondness: things
which offer brute physical resistance to our movements. In this way, such 
things
which affect us, like numbers, may be said to be "real", though they do not
"exist".  Margolis suggests that God, in such a linguistic usage, might very 
well be
"real", causing believers to act in such and such a way, but might not 
"exist".

Where religion is a man-made conversation about meaning and reality and much 
to with how our culture
has evolved in the context of our experience this may be a useful approach.

David M