(April 18, 2014 at 5:11 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(April 18, 2014 at 4:38 pm)Chas Wrote: Are you, like ChadWooters, asserting that revelations are facts, or can be determined to be facts?
If so, on what basis? Someone's testimony?
If not, what are you reasoning from?
Information that convinces you of something... is that a fact? I think a fact is an objective truth. Sure we can all agree on some religious truths (I'm talking believer and non).
Yes it's shared experience. Assuming belief the pot of shared information becomes vastly bigger. Those objective truths suddenly expanded to include those components dependent upon belief.
The widest endeavor of humans into spirituality is the same subject. Much of it is dross and takes some rigor to navigate. We have a lot of information to go on.
What shared truths?
What objective truths?
What information?
You assert that there are shared religious truths. I can't think of a one.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
