Sounds like you are using the terms religion and blind faith interchangeably, which does extraordinary violence to the accumulated wealth of wisdom and symbolically encoded insight stored in and transmitted by the world's traditions...
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Replying to @michaelgarfield @MimeticValue and
Yes, there are evil cults that plunge the other half of the world into centuries of darkness, and wise religions that enlighten my half of the world with centuries of insight. :)
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Replying to @Plinz @MimeticValue and
That sounds very black and white - and if I'm not mistaken, tolerance for ambiguity is a hallmark of Kegan's stage 4 and (even more so) stage 5...
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Replying to @michaelgarfield @MimeticValue and
Yes, you easily discover that there is not a single valid narrative but a map of possible truths. But the ambiguity does not extend to "perhaps we can go back to Newtonian physics" or "perhaps people talking to burning bushes have access to a deeper level of cosmic truth".
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Obviously. They just don’t have any claim to the null hypothesis.
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Replying to @Plinz @michaelgarfield and
Also, if someone rapes the mind of a student by imprinting untruth, I perceive them as fundamentally confused or violating my first moral principles by removing moral agency from someone who trusts them. I won’t trust such authority any more than a pig should trust the butcher.
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I don't think that an idea can be tainted by the one who has it. But by the same account, no idea can be accepted without having a pretty good idea about why it should be treated as truth.
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The teaching of practices is of course a very different thing than the teaching of ontological, moral or ethical precepts.
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Absolutely, and each observation has to be explained. The frame of the explanation itself cannot be generated by divine revelation.
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