RE: Why does science always upstage God?
September 24, 2021 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2021 at 1:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I wonder if reform christianity will ever get around to reforming it's more untenable propositions?
At any rate, sure - I think we have all sorts of cognitive ticks and biases. The belief that others must be suppressing revealed knowledge is one of them, as you demonstrated. I think that might have to do with successful reform movements becoming the thing they initially arise to combat. That a bunch of baggage ends up getting laundered in some new and genuinely valuable revision in the way we see gods.
At any rate, sure - I think we have all sorts of cognitive ticks and biases. The belief that others must be suppressing revealed knowledge is one of them, as you demonstrated. I think that might have to do with successful reform movements becoming the thing they initially arise to combat. That a bunch of baggage ends up getting laundered in some new and genuinely valuable revision in the way we see gods.
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