Is it impossible to know anything about God? Why Kant was wrong

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"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool."
Voltaire

AtamMardes
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Hi Christopher, I'd like to provide a criticism of your video. I liked it, but there are a couple of errors as I see it. Plantinga claims that Kant claimed we cannot think God. But that's not true. According to Kant, we can think everything as long as it's not self-contradictory. But thinking alone cannot tell whether something exists. We need a corresponding impression. Understanding and Intuition have work together. So Kant is not making the mistake that is ascribed to him, namely thinking about God while claiming we cannot think about God.
The same applies for thing considered in themselves. We can think them, that's not a problem. But thinking them can only provide us the following information, at best: Noumena are not unthinkable, they are not contradictory. The thinking of noumena does not equate to exploring their nature. Kant even says on B310 that the possibility of noumena is not knowable. He is not making any claims about noumena, he only says that the understanding can have thoughts about them, but this not knowledge for Kant.

lendrestapas
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Plantinga is just playing with his words
Saying that it's impossible to know something about something falsifies itself because you you know it's impossible, so you do know something
It's a logical fallacy because knowledge of something being impossible to know something about, is not knowledge of the thing itself
You don't actually seem to understand Kant
And your argument is absolute nonsense

scottmcadam