Postmodernism: Objective truth is unattainable. Knowledge is always situated. Religion: Objective truth is found in my religion & accepted via faith, Science: Objective truth is attainable in principle & attaining it is the aim but it is always provisional & open to correction.https://twitter.com/afterall_net/status/985533728381259776 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
In religion, understanding of truth must be open to correction, even as some things are accepted by faith. Unless one is convinced of ones own power of understanding, which is pride.
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Replying to @OrigenOfSpices
But the truth claims of the faith are not. There is no chance that Christians are going to correct their core beliefs. They'll just correct other members who they think diverge from the correct meaning.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Truth claims have a core within the tradition but also subject to transformation. If some person or group comes to believe they have been mistaken or misled, or they have a new spiritual experience, they change in response.
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Replying to @OrigenOfSpices
People do, yes. The core beliefs don't change. They just adapt round new knowledge. Some bits become metaphorical when no longer tenable, others are reinterpreted. The chances of say, Christianity, ever changing from the belief that Jesus was a divine being and the son of God?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Not as Christianity, no, because then it would be something else as a matter of definition. But there are sects and religious movements who have attempted to adapt Christianity in this way.
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Yes, but doubt is not encouraged and it is not the central claims. One is expected to overcome it with faith. Certainly not expected to try to falsify god claims, send findings to peer review and if can't confirm hypothesis, accept that God does not exist until evidence emerges.
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