Just something on the original Law of Contradiction post;
I think the Law of Contradiction can be used to disprove certain sets of statements constituting a description of God. For example, these statement-sets contradict each other;
* Nothing is really knowable about God.
* I really know something about God.
You can't know something unknowable.
* God can contradict the laws of logic.
* We can say anything meaningful about God.
Imagine God could contradict the law of excluded middle -- "a proposition is either true or false". A statement about God may be both true and false. E.g, "God is Love" is true, but also false. If that is the case, saying anything about God is downright impossible, because the statement may be true, false, both, or neither. Crazy.
There are other sets of statements that seem to be very, very hard to reconcile, if not actually impossible.
* God loves you.
* God is going to burn the eyeballs out of your skull for ever, you filthy sinner.
* (In 30AD) "But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God."
* (In 2006) The kingdom of God isn't here.
And also some mixtures of religious truth and empirical observations do not tally;
* God creates a firmament between the sea and the clouds, and calls it heaven.
* Airplanes do not crash into heaven.
None of these things could disprove all religious views; however, they could certainly rule out particular viewpoints.
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