Religion is the celebrated field of the study of “divine truth,” in which the virtue of believing something is “true” in the absence of evidence is only surpassed by the virtue of believing something is “true” in spite of the evidence.
It is to claim that the problem is not the evidence, in other words, but our inability to always understand and interpret that evidence in ways that only confirm the “beliefs” about our God and thus ourselves, that we want so desperately to be true to begin with.
Every other field of human learning and understanding necessarily requires some degree of evidence to support its respective claims. Divine truth alone, however, far exceeds, and is therefore wholly immune to, such petty human requirements.
It is to claim that the problem is not the evidence, in other words, but our inability to always understand and interpret that evidence in ways that only confirm the “beliefs” about our God and thus ourselves, that we want so desperately to be true to begin with.
Every other field of human learning and understanding necessarily requires some degree of evidence to support its respective claims. Divine truth alone, however, far exceeds, and is therefore wholly immune to, such petty human requirements.
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