| This inclusionist ideal that hopes to avoid conflict and political incorrectness by crediting Truth to anyone who has some religious idea (or a chance encounter with some suspect fungi) is adverse to logic. If you concede that there is an absolute Truth (meaning that the spiritual is something real and unaltered by our own wishes, rather than a product of fantasy) then you have to accept that there will be incorrect answers. To say that there is absolute Truth is to make that Truth real, and real things have properties. They have things that they are and aren't. And discounting belief, you can't say that one faith doesn't have a much better grasp on that Truth than others, just as you can't take an A paper and a D paper and give those students each the average of the two.
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6 |