Oannes

Gerry Quinn · 20 Mar 2012, 17:02 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:02:37 -0000
Subject: (urth) Oannes
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From: Lee Berman 



> Another assumption is that there is a one true God who is perfect and 
> choiceless and unchanging. As you suggest, any perceived changes or
> personification of such a God (including calling it "He") are false. They
> are simply projections of human imperfection on a perfect God. But this 
> means all religions are equally valid and/or equally false. Hindus, Christians 
> and animists are all equally human and thus equally right and wrong about the 
> unknowable perfection of the "real" God. How could one group of humans have
> a better grasp of the infinite than another?

The same way that one group of humans could have a better grasp of science, or economics, or poker, or any other unsolved matter.  To say that the unknowability of absolute truth renders all views equally valid is the silly end of relativism.
 
- Gerry Quinn
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