Can any religion admit to being possibly wrong in some or all it's beliefs?

Question

An agnostic can say that they may be wrong.

Answer 1

The longer the religion has been around, the more likely it is that some of its beliefs are proven wrong.

With the Catholic Church, the Inquisition forced Galileo to recant the idea that the earth revolved around the sun. In 1633, this was declared to be heresy. It actually took until 1992, but in that year, the Catholic church actually overturned the heresy conviction of Galileo, admitting that heliocentricity (the earth revolving around the sun) may have been right.

So while it does happen, it doesn't seem to happen too frequently.

Answer 2

Religion is supoosed to link man with the divine and divinity is supposed to be infallible so it's difficult for religions to admit being wrong because it negates the infallibility of the divine being in question.
Admitting wrong would also put a spotlight on the "fact" [depending on how you look at it] that religion and it's tenets sometimes are man-made and so open to fault. And since religion wants to draw people and not push them away, it will continue to represent it's beliefs as absolute truth.

Answer 3

My religion will not admit to it, of course, but I, a person *of* my religion can. To be brief, Catholicism is wrong to put down homosexuality, to have priests only be men, and to think that it is the only completely true religion out there. As for some of our actual beliefs? I have tested each aspect of my faith, and as of yet, I am still convinced by all it all -- logic and science even support my understanding.

Answer 4

Sure, I'm willing to admit that I might be wrong. But I'll do that on my own terms. I think most religious people are afraid of admitting that they might be wrong about some or all of their beliefs cause they think that like if they are wrong about their beliefs they could be wrong about everything else in their lives, and they are too fearful to look back and reexamine their lives. Their religion is like a liferaft, and they'll cling to it.

Answer 5

Religions operate on faith because there is generally no truth to support them. A religionist cannot forego the teachings of their faith or they are deemed a heretic within the community of co-religionists where they worship. The Catholic Church excommunicates any of their congregation that disagrees with them, and that is about the best example example I can give to support my answer of NO. You cannot believe and disbelieve at the same time. With religions, it's generally an all or nothing doctrine where faith is concerned. Too bad for the world.

Answer 6

The Catholic Church finally admitted that they were wrong several hundred years after prosecuting Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

Answer 7

Good question. I doubt that will ever really happen though. Especially in the all catagory. You see some churches now allowing gay priests. And the world is flipping out. How sad. It is a slow process. Maybe eventually but not overnight.

Answer 8

Actually, agnostics are right in that it's impossible to know, but we can admit that someone else may also be right

Answer 9

No because religion is all about finding truth, so if there is error in thier beliefs then thier whole foundation is cracked, they have nothing to stand on, and no truth to live for

Answer 10

i dunno.. judaism admits to a lot of things being wrong. well, maybe not wrong. certainly not all knowing. theres lots of things we dont know. and we say we dont know. like what happens when we die. we dont know. there are some ideas, and a vague notion of something that happens in some nebulous future, but really, not a clue. and catfish. when the laws of kosher were written, we had no idea catfish existed. so that took some figuring out.