One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the … - Tim Crane

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Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life. . . It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.

Tim Crane

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc. ).

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Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

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The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

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Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the association of truth with virtue, I am not sure if the world would be a better place if people believed more true things. But what is undeniable is that we cannot understand our own culture unless we recognise that it was formed, for good or bad, as a Christian culture. It's an illusion that we could somehow recover a human essence which is independent of the way it was created by culture.

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Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

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