Is Ludwig Wittgenstein's Argument Of The Last Judgement?

Ludwig Wittgenstein was born on April 26, 1889, to Karl Wittgenstein, a Jew, while his mother was a Roman Catholic. Ludwig was baptized as a Catholic and was the youngest of eight children. Ludwig’s father, Karl, was one of the richest persons in Austria, due to his involvement as an industrialist in the steel industry. Thus, with such a large fortune amassed, Karl was able to send his children to the highest institutions of learning. Three of Ludwig’s brothers Hans, Kurt, and Rudolph committed suicide later in their lives, no doubt leaving an impact on Ludwig’s ideas. From a young age, Ludwig was very captivated by mechanics and even created a working sewing machine by the age of ten. In 1906 Ludwig traveled to Berlin to begin his studies

In his discourse on Religious Beliefs, Wittgenstein most often employs this theory with regards to the concept of God and the Last Judgement. Wittgenstein theorizes that it cannot be known whether or not seemingly contradictory beliefs such as if someone believes in the Last Judgement or not are truly contradictory because one cannot accurately connect a word with a true picture. Neither person can connect their usage of words with an existential event or object, thus they cannot truly contradict. He uses an analogy to illustrate his point. He says that if his brother is in America He could imagine there being rays projecting from my words to my brother in America. But what if my brother isn’t in America?-Then the rays don’t hit anything. Wittgenstein correlates this idea with Michelangelo’s painting of the Creation of Adam. The role of pictures of Biblical subjects, Wittgenstein claims, and the role of the god creating Adam are totally different ones. Did the deity creating Adam look like how Michelangelo portrayed him? Wittgenstein’s point is that in religious discussion, you cannot equate pictures—which are the ultimate portrayal of truth—with an actual picture. So with the idea of whether or not beliefs presented by Spiritualists are in fact true, it can never be fully proven, so a stance of “probably not” must be