Month: August 2020
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Faith is not a pathway to truth
Last Updated on 2022-08-04 by Joop Beris When engaged in a discussion with religious people there often comes a point where your interlocutor says: “If you only had faith then you’d know my beliefs are true”. If they are Christian, they may quote Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the…
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How to be a freethinker
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris In 1637, René Descartes published his work Discourse on the Method. In this work, Descartes discusses philosophical skepticism, doubting everything until arriving at truth which he considers to be so self evident as to be beyond discussion. This tome is the source of what is perhaps the most…