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Originally Posted by SMadsen
Sure they can all be correct. Not to the same mind (assuming the mind is relatively sane), but to different minds. Thing is that all these claims exist in the mind, only. No claim can ever be materialized and therefore verified. C'est impossible.
It's really only when the religious person starts to argue the veracity of his or her respective claim that conflicts arise between claims. And that's when there is no other option than to declare conflicting claims to be lies, or, at the very least, false. But until that happens, they are all true  |
You could make that same argument about anything, religious or otherwise; there's no escaping the fact that all claims "exist in the mind" and that there's no way to get to any verification without going through the mind.
You could say that it's only when I start arguing the veracity of my claim about George Washington being the first US president that a conflict arises with a claim that Bob Hope was the first president. After that, there's no option but to call the conflicting claim a lie or at least false.
But it would be kinda stupid to say that both claims were true just because we didn't argue about it.
Any claim, by definition, is an assertion of its own veracity.