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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