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What Is Truth: Wrestling with Absolutism, Relativism, and Alternative Facts (Re-Release from S01E21)

A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

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The Complex Relationship Between Truth and Moralism

I realized in knowing we were going to talk about the stay, I was thinking like, what is what is truth and how do I relate to it? And I've had this increasingly complex relationship with truth because belief in something as true gives us a platform from which you can critique or reject things other than that as untrue or false. We can we can reject them as false in this kind of active confrontational way. Or then there's this this concept of like, there's your truth and there's my truth and we'll have our truth. It feels I like that, but it doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. That's that's how I'm sitting with truth right now

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