Mark Hopwood

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Elucidations · Episode 15: Brian Leiter discusses religious toleration · 8 Sep 2010 podcast

And this was about Christianity and the Gospels, and it was aimed to show how they all made sense. voice-verified

How if you looked at the historical record, if you imposed precisely normal standards of reason and evidence, you would find that everything in the gospel voice-verified

Claims were true. voice-verified

There was this familiar formula of Jesus is either mad, bad, or the son of God, right? voice-verified

And you're supposed to go through the options and see how it's got to be the latter. voice-verified

So it looks first like there are at least some ways in which people hold religious belief. voice-verified

We might not like them, we might not hold it in that way ourselves, but at least some where standards of reason and evidence are supposed to be employed. voice-verified

So that would be one case. voice-verified

And then a second case of the definition letting in too much might be to say, well, is it really the case that when we talk about people's beliefs about meaning in life, ultimate value, whether or not they're religious? voice-verified

It's pretty rare for people to bring to bear strong standards of reason and evidence to their beliefs about the meaning of life, what what's worth doing, so that this wouldn't be a characteristic of just religious belief in question, but really any belief about those things that matter most. voice-verified

So what would your response to those kinds of counterexamples be? voice-verified

Sure. voice-verified

So maybe let's imagine I'm John Lennon and let's imagine that the song Imagine in fact captures something about my view of the world. voice-verified

So voice-verified

There's no heaven, above us only sky. voice-verified

Let's say I also think that love is the answer, right? voice-verified

And I think that we should give peace a chance. voice-verified

And these are beliefs that I have that absolutely command me to do certain things, like voice-verified

I am never gonna go to war. voice-verified

what i I will I will indeed come into conflict with the law if the law wants me to go to war. voice-verified

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