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The Outsider Test for Faith - How to Know Which Religion Is True (Paperback)
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The Outsider Test for Faith - How to Know Which Religion Is True (Paperback)
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Fostering mutual understanding by viewing religion from an outsider
perspective Depending on how one defines religion, there are at
least thousands of religions in the world. Given such religious
diversity, how can any one religion claim to know the truth?
Nothing proposed so far has helped us settle which of these
religions, if any, are true--until now. Author John W. Loftus, a
former minister turned atheist, argues we would all be better off
if we viewed any religion--including our own--from the informed
skepticism of an outsider, a nonbeliever. For this reason he has
devised "the outsider test for faith." He describes it as a
variation on the Golden Rule: "Do unto your own faith what you do
to other faiths." Essentially, this means applying the same
skepticism to our own beliefs as we do to the beliefs of other
faiths. Loftus notes that research from psychology, anthropology,
sociology, and neuroscience goes a long way toward explaining why
the human race has produced so many belief systems, why religion is
culturally dependent, and how religion evolved in the first place.
It's important that people understand these findings to escape the
dangerous delusion that any one religion represents the only truth.
At a time when the vast diversity of human belief systems is
accessible to all, the outsider test for faith offers a rational
means for fostering mutual understanding.
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