This paper is concerned with the centrality of aspect seeing in
Wittgenstein's philosophy, with some analogies between religious beliefs and aspect
seeing, and with the implications of these analogies for the question of the
justification of religious beliefs. If belief in God is neither a hypothesis nor a regular
perceptual belief but rather a type of aspect seeing, then the kinds of proofs and
justifications that are applicable to it would have to engage the non-believer in a
manner that would help her experience the dawning of a new aspect. This is why
the standard philosophical proofs for theism, even when accepted as valid, are likely
to be unsuccessful in bringing about faith.