Religious fictionalism defended: reply to Cordry

In his paper, ‘A critique of religious fictionalism’, Benjamin Cordryraises a series of objections to a fictionalist form of religious non-realism thatI proposed in my earlier paper, ‘Can an atheist believe in God?’. They fall into twomain categories: those alleging that an atheist would be unjustified in adoptingfictionalism, and those alleging that fictionalism could not be successfullyimplemented, or practised communally. I argue that these objections can be met