Do you think that ockham's razor...?

Question

can be useful in the search for spiritual fulfillment? If anything, I think that it can give us perspective in the times when we become lost. Sometimes, seeking too deeply in one direction can lead us away from where we want to be, and we need something to turn us around.

novan.. - good point; i was just asking a hypothetical question --- talking about the journey, and taking it are two different things

Answer 1

Don't confuse Occam's Razor for mindless acceptance of simplistic ideas.

Answer 2

Occam's Razor is useful, but remember that it only applies to propositions which successfully explain certain phenomena. If one proposition can successfully explain something by saying "X, Y, Z", and another can equally successfully explain it by saying "X, Y", then by Occam's Razor the latter is chosen. However, it shouldn't be assumed that two propositions have equal explanatory value until they've both been carefully examined. For example, "The Earth revolves around the Sun because of gravity" might seem simpler than "The Earth revolves around the Sun because of God", simply because gravity is a complex topic in physics, but that doesn't mean that Occam's Razor prefers the latter over the former. The reason it doesn't is because the two explanations aren't equally useful for actually understanding the phenomena involved. God is too vague and undefined of a concept to have much value as an explanation, if any; it really just answers a question with another, often even more difficult question. So the concept of God, and many other spiritual concepts, are of minimal explanatory value. Occam's Razor would apply, in contrast, to picking "The Earth revolves around the Sun due to gravity" over "The Earth revolves around the Sun due to gravity and God", since the two both explain the phenomena, but the former is clearly simpler.

Answer 3

Whats simpler than One God! no need for trinity and the other Godhead nonsense

- Thats why I am Muslim!