The Stupidity Of Religious Subjectivism

There are some truths that would not need to be explicitly clarified were it not for the philosophical incompetence of other people.  One example is that there would be no need to specifically state that religious claims are inevitably true or false, even if the ability to verify or falsify them is beyond a person's epistemological status.  If no one claimed that religious truths are subjective, distinct from logical facts, it would be sufficient to merely say that truth is objective.

Religious preferences vary from person to person, as do moral and aesthetic preferences, but the ideas those preferences latch on to either reflect reality or they do not.  Reality cannot be reflected in the conflicting preferences of various human minds, and not even the mind of God can alter strictly logical truths.  Religious subjectivism is an ideology that cannot possibly be true because it reduces down to the self-refuting notions of relativism.

In spite of this, a number of people attempt to compartmentalize religious practice and commitment from their approach to other matters, holding that the former is a matter of subjective experience or preference.  The goal may be emotionalistic fulfillment, an excuse to promote religious tolerance, or sheer stupidity, but it is easily falsified in any case.  No religious ideas can escape the binary possibilities of true and false.

Even treating religious practice as a strictly personal issue that should not be discussed or debated with others promotes an atmosphere that is ripe for religious subjectivism.  When most people cannot even understand basic logical axioms without assistance, confusion about other matters almost invariably follows, and thus it is not strange that the present culture of the West flirts with a relativistic conception of religion.  As long as they are not impacted, many people are content to encourage whatever religious practice others cling to, even though reason governs the truth or falsity of religious claims just as much as it governs all other things.