Philosophy Richard Roper Philosophy Richard Roper

What is Truth?

The nature and source of truth is one of the most fundamental of questions that mankind has asked itself down the millennia. Truth is a foundational concept in human life and philosophy and in our western, post-modern world of fake news and disinformation we are living in a crisis of truth. Nobody knows what to believe, who to believe or even if there is any such thing as truth.

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Philosophy, Atheism, Theism Richard Roper Philosophy, Atheism, Theism Richard Roper

The Irrationality of Atheism

The accusation is often made that to become a Christian requires one to abandon reason, to ‘just believe’, and that one might as well believe in a great sky-fairy or a flying spaghetti monster. Granted, some Christians do act as if they have lost their reason, but the Christian faith did not come to be held by over 2 billion people or underpin our understanding of the world by promoting the rejection of mental faculties…

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Trying to bring sense, perspective and understanding into the cascading events of the world as social and political tides push and pull us ever further from our mooring.