{"id":43237,"date":"2014-06-24T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/absolute-truth-in-perspective.html"},"modified":"2014-06-26T07:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:01:43","slug":"absolute-truth-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/absolute-truth-in-perspective.html","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Truth in Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"
Anyone who claims with absolute certainty that their religion is the One True Way is trying to sell something — either to you or to themselves. I have my own beliefs, which range from vague hunches to enough faithful certainty to make a serious effort\u00a0to live up to the particular teachings I think come closest to the truth — but I have neither the hubris nor the gall to claim a particular, personal, infallible insight into absolute metaphysical and theological truth.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Monica McGee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

OF COURSE!!<\/b> (\u25d5\u203f~)\u273f\u00a0<\/p>\n

#atheism<\/a> #atheist<\/a> #AtheistRollCall<\/a> #skeptic<\/a> #agnostic<\/a> #reason<\/a> #irreligion<\/a> #irreligious<\/a> #Monicks<\/a>\u00a0\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Anyone who claims with absolute certainty that their religion is the One True Way is trying to sell something — either to you or to themselves. I have my own beliefs, which range from vague hunches to enough faithful certainty to make a serious effort\u00a0to live up to the particular teachings I think come closest … Continue reading “Absolute Truth in Perspective”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,110,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religious-zanies","category-religion-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/monicks-435.gif.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24323,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/certainty-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","url_meta":{"origin":43237,"position":0},"title":"Certainty for Me But Not for Thee","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-11 4:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The GOP regularly lambastes the Dems in general and the Federal Government in particular for not giving businesses \"certainty\" in legal and tax and regulatory area. 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