Skepticism and Religion: Towards a Possible Marriage (3/4)

The second issue obtains by facing this non-object that the believer calls God (or plainly das Sein for those who don’t mind religion), and of which we can’t display any opinion whatsoever. However, if we take Heidegger seriously, this non-object-God is nonetheless the Horizon of Possibility (Horizont der Möglichkeit) of all Being (Seienden) as such. This means that the sole presence of a Being will point out to the One Horizon of its possibility, and point it out as the Undeterminable tantum. As the Absent-paradoxically-present-in-all-Presence (sorry for that), das Sein des Seiendes is utterly non-objective and non-determinable, making the whole opinion about it void. Therefore, facing this Horizon no opinion could cope (not even this one, which is Heideggers’s of course, not mine). But, nevertheless, the absent Horizon is paradoxically present, which means that—although absolutely absent—the mind is able at least to talk about it.
Is this what we have just read (heard) the symptom of some kind of mental illness or can we assume that we are talking soundly about religion? There seems to be something ‘there’, at least in language, which may be referred to by some set of nouns that at their turn mean some special kind of void belief. If I were concerned exclusively with tradition I would call this a mystical belief in God, but since I’m trying to reach people of our time that are poorly concerned with historical issues, let me call it a post-metaphysical belief, i.e. one that not being nihilistic supports no knowledge and no opinion of God.
But before I try to convince you about the soundness of my effort, let us consider again why, in the first place, the belief in das Sein des Seiendes can be equaled to a post-metaphysical belief in God?
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