Science breeds complacency

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.

On May 27, 8:54 am, “Bob T.” wrote:
> On May 26, 8:28 pm, Alan Wostenberg wrote:
>
> > Bob, let’s not waste time on silly, uninteresting or absurd things.
> > Why do you find it any of those things to say of a man who seeks truth
> > with his whole heart and mind “his God is truth”?
>
> Because “God is truth” is meaningless. If you actually mean that
> “God” is the same thing that we normally define as “truth”, then there
> is no reason to use the word “God” at all - just say “truth”. If
> truth is what you seek, then you are a truth-seeker, not a God-seeker.

Meaningless? Have you not heard phrases like “his God is his stomach”;
“his God is power”; “his God is truth”, and so forth? It refers to
whatever is the highest good of that person; he subordinates
everything that. He would rather know the most bitter truth than
believe the most pleasing fantasy. Does this not describe your
orientation with regards to truth? If truth is not your God, then what
regulates your life?

> If, on the other hand, you mean something deep and meaningful about
> saying that “God” (a word that describes a deity, commonly the Judeo-
> Christian one) is the same thing as “truth” (the opposite of false),
> then I disagree. Those two words do not mean anything similar at all,
It does seem that way at first blush. Isn’t truth relational — the
conformance of mind to extra-ental reality? If so, how could truth be
a Person?

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