Harold J. Laski: “And if sincerity alone is to count as the test, then there cannot, for…”

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And if sincerity alone is to count as the test, then there cannot, for the existing world, be any such thing as objective religious truth.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues that if sincerity is the only measure of truth, then objective religious truth cannot exist.

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We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

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