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01 Jul 07

Mark Kleiman | A Sermon on Doubt

  • Doubt is the chastity of the mind.
  • Taking religious language as poetic rather than prosaic means that simple categories of truth and falsehood don’t directly apply. That’s what allows the mystics to claim that they all see the same transcendent reality, while each affirms as well his or her own adherence to a particular faith tradition. And once we understand traditional moral teachings as deserving of respect merely as the traditions of the group – more or less like Constitutional law – their authority is no longer entirely bound up with the passages in various sacred texts that seem to embody factual assertions about cosmology, biology, or history, or even to the obsolete moral content of those same texts.
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