Well, obviously this is only selectively applied, because they'd certainly tell me that THEY are right and I'M wrong, so I'll re-phrase that: there seems to be no comprehension of the fact that there is such a thing as fixed, immutable truth. They cannot grasp that one person's religion could quite easily be correct while others were incorrect - in an absolute sense, just as the Atlantic Ocean is made of water rather than soya milk.* (Really this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to me, after all, the same people have difficulty accepting that things such as rape, slavery or murder are wrong in any kind of real sense - that is, a sense that transcends cultural norms. I cannot even get those people to agree with me that kindness is better than cruelty!)
Anyway, yesterday morning it dawned on me why they might have such a big problem with the very concept of truth. Despite all their claims to hold "the truth" about the material world (and every other kind of world, if they have their way), the secularists know that tomorrow or next week they are going to have to change their rendition of it, because science does so continually. Each time, the latest theory is declared as a "scientific fact". Other views are seen as untrue because the latest set of experiments has "proved" it to be so. That is until the next "proof" comes along. How the universe "really" started or why the dinosaurs "really" died out is a constantly changing "truth." So the words "truth" and "proof" take on whole new meanings.
With "the scientific method" elevated to the status of a god, theory becomes "the truest thing there is". The actual Truth becomes devalued somewhat. It is evidently hard for people with such a mindset to have any strong faith or conviction - they don't want to adhere too firmly to an idea, only to look silly when it is yesterday's news.
Except of course, as I've already stated (in fact it is largely what this whole blog is about), they ARE certain that religion - ALL religion - is false and must be false. It CANNOT be true, even when it is proved to be - they will not allow it to be, even when it is. They have designed parameters that will not let religion in and will move them if it comes close. By declaring religion to be outside of the parameters of materialistic possibility, they aim to expel it from the whole universe. Though of course, a purely materialistic universe is not the REAL universe, but a construct of their own imaginations. The idea that the material universe is all there is, is just another uncontestable "truth" in their eyes.
I wonder if irony fits into their world view.
* Though of course, this might be quite hard to prove in a laboratory setting.
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