Re:Why We Fight over Fiction
by jrochkind1 on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:15AM
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> But the second most likely is that everyone's religious myths are true... I've never actually seen anyone advocate for the second position before.
You have to expand your understanding of "truth" when it comes to religious myths to make that work, because of course some contradict on their face.
But yeah, I have seen it advocated in several ways. From the sort of liberal platitude "all religions are just different paths to the same underlying diety", to a certain kind of neo-pagan constructivist "We make religions true by believing in them." I lean toward the latter.
You have to expand your understanding of "truth" when it comes to religious myths to make that work, because of course some contradict on their face.
But yeah, I have seen it advocated in several ways. From the sort of liberal platitude "all religions are just different paths to the same underlying diety", to a certain kind of neo-pagan constructivist "We make religions true by believing in them." I lean toward the latter.