Desiree asked:


Someone was asking yesterday about accepting historical facts as truth when the evidence is not entirely accurate. It seemed to me that this person didn’t understand that rational people don’t perceive this type of information in terms of absolute truth or outright falsehood which is how religious people seem to perceive this information. Rational people look at information like currently accepted historical facts as just that, currently accepted facts; nothing more, nothing less. Rational people say, “The evidence we have at present supports this understanding of historical events. We may discover evidence in the future that suggests something different, but for now, all the evidence we have supports this understanding.”

See, rational people are not saying that the currently accepted historical facts are absolute truth and they’re not saying they are outright falsehoods either. Do you think that’s one of the main problems religious people have with understanding intellectual pursuits; they look at it terms of absolute truth or outright falsehood? Do you think this erroneous reasoning is a side effect of the religious indoctrination and brainwashing they endured as children and it has warped their ability to effectively perceive reality?

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Christ4all asked:


Is there a truth out there that is only dependant on its own true existence, a truth affecting everything no matter how much anyone denies it even exists?
Just because you believe it, does it make it any more real of a truth?
How can anyone know that they are actually right?
How do you know you are not fatally wrong?
Don’t just answer without thinking like you probably will.
Please.

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Desiree asked:


Every time these people encounter new information, they check it against the bible to see if it is acceptable as to be assumed as truth. That means even if they encounter something solid and tangible, if the bible denies its existence, so do these people! Even if it’s a bus doing 90mph heading straight for them, these people would deny it was real! So by stubbornly insisting that the bible is the infallible word of a god, these people are willingly allowing their lives to be affected in a negative way, aren’t they?

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michael asked:


If there is no Truth, how can there be real knowledge? Doesn’t everything devolve into opinion without belief in absolute truth?

And for Christians: isn’t your radical separation of faith and knowledge a tacit admission that there is no objective truth?

As always, thanks in advance for your thoughtful answers.

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