deconversion

I'm reading a humorous philosophy book right now (and enjoying it!) and the current section I'm reading talks about language and meaning and definitions, etc.

This made me think of the Deistic argument that god didn't write the bible because of the impercise nature of language.

For those who aren't familiar with this argument, it states that god wouldn't be so stupid as to trust such an important message like eternal life, salvation, etc to such a falible form of communcation as human language. Furthermore, he wouldn't have picked some obscure language  and then by that cause our individual eternal salvation to depend on the ability of man to correctly copy, translate and communicate that message.

Anyway, this book (Plato and A Platipus Walk Into A Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein) really brings that point home without trying to. Cathcart and Klein talk about problems with communcation between humans. I couldn't help but think about how applicable that discussion was to communication between the divine and the mortal.

Of course, if the divine was all that divine, it would already know that and would have sucessfully overcome it.