more infinite games

Just read The Religious Case Against Belief by Carse.  Good book.  Very challenging.  Have long felt that the Hitchens and Dawkins and them were cutting down strawmen in the god/no-god debates.  But the idea that anti-theists are just as much circling the wagons around a belief system as are the theists rings right on.  Carse has zoomed back and is looking at this debate from a meta-level.  There is room in the explorations to take seriously the religious case for astonished bafflement and high-order ignorance.  Carse makes the case well (and in so doing he defines the boundaries of a religious case against belief systems as a belief system… inevitable?).

I’ve long been on the side of bafflement and astonishment over that of crisp and clearly edged categories.  So I reckon that ‘infinite games’, though they necessarily brew longer and deeper and subtler conflicts, are the kinds of games worth playing.  I’m afraid I do have to be all about The Mystery.