I read another book the other week which brought up an interesting point. If something is true... for example, that the earth is a roundish... then to say "I believe the earth is roundish" doesn't make it true. To say "I believe the earth is flat" doesn't make the earth flat.
To say "I believe in God" or "I do not believe in God" does not alter the truth that God exists or does not exist. So our beliefs are really quite irrelevant to the order of the world. If something exists or is true, that is that. If something does not exist or is not true, then no amount of belief is going to alter that.
Which makes me wonder... with so many world religons out there, all professing to have the truth, all believing that they have the truth... what is the point of all that? What is the point of fighting over our beliefs? Beliefs that can change from one minute to the next, or from one year to the next or from one century to the next. We all think that our beliefs are the truth... but what if they aren't? Beliefs have defended slavery. Beliefs have defended the Holocaust. Beliefs have defended terrorism and mass murder. For what?
That's where we then claim to have the truth and know the truth. Because if our beliefs don't convince things... then we will say we have the Truth... and know the Truth... But do we?
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