Ah, but what do they study? The moment you assume that any proposition is
revealed truth, the moment you decide to accept without question any
proposition relayed to you by another human being, you are taking the "I hear
and obey" route.
Have you ever read the Summa? Presumably not, or you would have caught that I was testing you -- it was Aquinas who wrote the Summa, Augustine wrote City of God.
You make assumptions about these works without having read them. Part of your prejudice based on ignorance. Some call that bigotry. Probably as accurate a word for it as any.
If you had ever seriously read and studied the great religious thinkers, you would know what nonsense your statement was.
But you seem to prefer criticizing out of ignorance.
But the moment you accept a proposition without question, you set honesty aside.
The moment you question everything, you go insane because one of the things you accept without question is your own existence. Even Descartes couldn't get past that -- his "cogito" failed because there was not proof that he thought. That, too, was assumption, a proposition accepted without question.
I have no doubt that you accept many propositions without question. Does that make you dishonest?
No more--nor less--so than anyone else, religious or not. |
