One thing I see is that people take the fact that some pieces of their religion are of a nature that can be neither proven nor disproven and assume that that absolves them from having to justify any of it.
Believing in a supernatural master of our universe isn’t any more unreasonable than believing we live in a simulation instead of the top-level reality. Neither supposition can be definitively shown to be true or false without access to an outside view of the universe itself. That’s not something we’re likely to accomplish any time soon.
But does that automatically translate into your particular religion correctly ascertaining the will of any such master so strongly that you don’t need to justify it somehow?
Insofar as some of the ancient religions were based on a search for the truth they can make reasonable starting points. But many people take that ancient finger pointing toward the truth and instead of looking toward the shining city in the distance, shouldering their packs, and setting off to continue the journey, they sit down and suck on what’s really just a road sign and tell themselves they’re “glorying in its Majesty”...
One thing I see is that people take the fact that some pieces of their religion are of a nature that can be neither proven nor disproven and assume that that absolves them from having to justify any of it.
Believing in a supernatural master of our universe isn’t any more unreasonable than believing we live in a simulation instead of the top-level reality. Neither supposition can be definitively shown to be true or false without access to an outside view of the universe itself. That’s not something we’re likely to accomplish any time soon.
But does that automatically translate into your particular religion correctly ascertaining the will of any such master so strongly that you don’t need to justify it somehow?
Insofar as some of the ancient religions were based on a search for the truth they can make reasonable starting points. But many people take that ancient finger pointing toward the truth and instead of looking toward the shining city in the distance, shouldering their packs, and setting off to continue the journey, they sit down and suck on what’s really just a road sign and tell themselves they’re “glorying in its Majesty”...