“When interpreted as infallible, the truth claims of powerful institutions — whether religious or secular — tend to emphasise the fallibility of individuals and their subjective ethical intuitions; thus, undermining self-reliance, including people’s ability to make use of information they intuitively know is basically correct, based on their own experiences or simply common sense.” TruthCommon SenseInfallibilityEthical Intuition Book:Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility Source: Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of scripture, they were effectively promoting a kind of secular rationalism that states that one does not need to have a religious experience of any kind to live a moral life: all one has to do is declare one’s faith in scripture, in the doctrine of Jesus’ divinity and such, and accept the authority of the Holy Catholic Church as God’s representative on Earth.” TruthFaithAuthorityScriptureDisobedienceCatholic ChurchRationalismReligious ExperienceMoral LifeOrigin Myth Book:Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility Source: Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility