Doesn't religion create a world where facts become interchangeable with opinions, where lies become true?

Answer 1

Yep, a fantasy world where truth depends on what you *want* to be true (or fear may be true), rather than on what is actually evident.

NB Aquinas starts out by assuming a god that is inevident, so he falls at the first hurdle.

Answer 2

actually, religion creates a world where people are burdened by too many rules and they feel the need to exchange facts for opinions and tell lies instead of seeking truth to feel better about themselves.
Relationship can see through all that junk.

Answer 3

The problem is that religion is subjective. There is no definitive text on spirituality that we, as mere mortals, have access to, therefore we, despite our ignorance and fallibility, fill in the gaps with opinion and hearsay.
The only solution to this that I've come across is to study all the religions and attempt to learn something from each one.

Answer 4

erm, no not really, the world has always been one where facts mistakenly become interchangeable with opinion and where people can deceive others to think lies are true.

Answer 5

Yeah thats the way it works. Since there are so many different ppl in the world each beliveing something, they add their bias to it, their spin. Religion is vey individual. We have major problems when you start trying to convince or force your opinion to others. Keep your religion to yourself.

Answer 6

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.The current of the river swept silently over them all-young and old,rich and poor,good and evil,the current going its own way,knowing its own crystal way. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and the rocks of the river bottom,for cling was their way of life,and resisting the current what each one learned from birth.But one creature said at last,I'm tired of clinging.Though i cannot see it with my eyes,I trust the current to know where its going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will.Clinging,I shall die of boredom.The other creatures laughed and said "FOOL"Let go, and that current will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks,and you will die quicker than boredom. But the young one heeded them not and taking a breath did let go and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.Yet in time as the creature refused to cling again,the current lifted him free from the bottom,and he was bruised and hurt no more.And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger cried,"see a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!.And the one carried by the current said "I am no more the Messiah that you.The river delights to lift us free,if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage,this adventure."But they cried the more,"Saviour"! all the while cling to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were felt along making ledends of a saviour

Answer 7

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean NOT unto thine own understanding.

Answer 8

Yep

Answer 9

Nope. Catholic Christianity is all about truth and logic. See St. Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" for more details.

Answer 10

only if you believe it to be