Tag: Evidence

“Breivik is not a Christian; that’s impossible. No one believing in Jesus commits mass murder.”  A short tutorial in logic, as taught by television personality Bill O’Reilly.

Religions do make factual and historical claims, and if these claims are false, then the religions fail. But this dependence on fact does not make religious claims anything like hypotheses in the scientific sense. Hypotheses are not central. Rather, what is central is the commitment to the meaningfulness (and therefore the mystery) of the world.