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05 May 2014

The old elephant story

We've all heard the story of the blind men and the elephant. One blind man feels the elephant's tusk and says it must be like a spear. Others feel the ear,  side, and tail and declare an elephant to be like a fan, a wall, and a snake.

The point is that we all have part of the truth, but that no one has the whole thing. But the story presupposes an outside observer.

Someone has to know the whole truth. That's the position secular humanism has claimed for itself. All religions, it says, are equally wrong, so it's the only impartial judge.

That's true, if  all religions are wrong. If Chhristianity is right, though, then secular humanism is another false religion, another blind man around the elephant.

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