Within religion, faith is a virtue. Something you really believe and which guides your life. That you'll try to overcome doubt for with prayer. It's not just accepting a commonly held truth provisionally & expecting some of it to change. https://twitter.com/KantBreal/status/979334684965588992 …
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For sure, even as I’ve gained? Faith I think much of fundamentalism gets a lot of things wrong, I should have better clarified that. Been reading about orthodox and older aspects and it seemed that until recently Christianity was more symbolic than literal in its interpretations.
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Was something that really surprised and intrigued me. Like, what if there’s something legit to our religious systems, but we’ve just been doing it wrong because we mistakenly think the purpose of religion was supplanted with the advent of science?
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It doesn't even have to be religion. Faith-based epistemologies vs evidence-based ones.
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I think its more complicated than that, though. I think many with religious faith would argue that their beliefs are evidence based. Further, evidence based epistemologies can tell you what something 'is' but not what to do about it.
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But they'd be wrong. Yes. Truth claims and moral claims are difference to a certain extent tho it all reduces to facts in the end. Not relevant to epistemology tho.
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I think it would depend on the claim and the evidence. Its not relevant to epistemology, no, but it IS relevant to religion. That's my point. I think assuming that the purpose of religion is to teach us about the world and its history is incorrect.
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Ive been surprised to learn that many religious people agree with that as well. It really floored me actually.
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