RE: Why did God allow his words to be changed?
August 12, 2021 at 4:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2021 at 4:08 am by vulcanlogician.)
(August 11, 2021 at 3:20 pm)Astreja Wrote:(August 11, 2021 at 2:46 pm)DocIllinois Wrote: In my experience, trouble is created when those who glean a comprehensive set of answers from them not only insist that this information inescapably applies to the rest of us, but sometimes provide active resistance to mankind's cultural progress when it refutes a biblical "instruction" or "explanation."
The problem is ultimately rooted in a mindset that insists upon definitive answers and that has a near-zero toleration for provisional answers and ambiguity. Once they go down that "absolute truth" rabbit hole, they'll defend that turf long after Reality has plowed it up.
IDK. Plato kind of thought that there was some kind of absolute truth. I think the key difference was that he didn't think we humans had access to it. He thought it required investigation and intellectual work to suss out. And even then, the human mind is only capable of understanding a fraction of it. To Plato there IS ambiguity... and plenty of it. And there needs to be debate from all sides, arguments for/against, and challenges to all ideas in order to learn anything genuine.
What separates fundies and zealots from Plato is that they have "special access" to the absolute truth. It's written in their holy book. It can be summarized on a cheesy pamphlet. And instead of arguments for/against the supposed absolute truth, we get "You better believe or else..."
I dig what you're saying. And I personally agree. But not every absolutist deserves to be thrown on the same shitpile as religious thinkers.
