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Quote by: Flip Jackson Athena, I have a hard time trying to figure out how to respond to your threads.
I agree with a lot of what you say, and I recognize that you know what you are talking about. Ignorance and the Bible combined have caused a lot of problems throughout history. In fact the mixture of ignorance with anything has caused problems, but the Bible gave people unquestionable authority to commit some of these atrocities.
I agree that reason is terribly important in trying to find truth as we understand it. Although, we must remember that reason doesn't mean seeing things as we see it. Reason just means having a justified way of thinking about something, right? That's why two people can use reason to debate opposing views.
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"Reason just means having a justified way of thinking about something, right?"
Not exactly. I believe it was King James who argued against the people's desire to control the king with limits and laws. He argued he always gave his reasoning for the laws he wanted. Justifying what we want is a whole meaning of reasoning. Especially in a democracy, that reasoning is suppose to be a shared process, where people work for a concensus on the best reasoning. As those who gave us our constitution know, not everyone was happy with everything said in the constitution. There was a lot of compromising, and the best reasoning can be far from perfection. Reasoning, science, is not absolute truth, but only our best understanding of truth at the moment.
Reasoning is more a process than the end result. Ideally when we present our arguments we begin with here is my reasoning- point a, point b, point c and we invite others to agree or disagree and give their reasoning, until there is a consensus on the best reasoning. Always that reasoning must be based on universal turths, as best as we understand them. Wow, would this end some of the government corruption we have today!
The slight but important difference is caring more about truth than anything else. My reasoning may be all wrong, and sometimes I really hope it is. So I am not always attempting to justify my point of view, but to explore the greater truth.