Abstract
Several new atheists claim that they can give positive reasons for denying the existence of God. (Everitt, 2004). One of the famously known arguments on this issue is the teapot argument. Put forward by Bertrand Russell originally; this argument recently was taken up by new atheists like Richard Dawkins. Dawkins says, ‘you have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn’t mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence’ (Dawkins, 2002, 2006). This argument proposes to claim the ‘non-existence’ of God based on the analogy of ‘non-existence’ of teapot (Garvey, 2010). In this article, we contend that analogical argument of teapot and God is misconceived. We strengthen our argument by taking cue from Wittgenstein’s view on God and religion.
