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Ep. 14 - The Morality of Satire: Andrew Doyle and Stephen Blackwood

The Ralston College Podcast

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The Attack on the Idea of Truth

I completely get what you're saying and I think I fundamentally agree. What I bristle with a bit is when people wish to use as a synonym for use, like to wish to use religion as a blanket synonym for irrational beliefs. And that's just not fair either to the history of religion or of philosophy. Whether those beliefs are true or not is sometimes irrelevant when the view is taken up without regard for its truth. You have no idea whether it's true. That's the, it's the attack on the notion of truth itself. So yeah, I think that is a problem. I think teaching people or telling people to be mistrustful of the idea of truth gets us

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