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How To Be Religious (II): Fundamentalism
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eisegesis
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the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text
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This is, bluntly, eisegesis—it is reading-in, placing a message into the text that simply isn’t there with an overlay of mysticism to give you plausible deniability about what you’re doing.
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This is, bluntly, eisegesis—it is reading-in, placing a message into the text that simply isn’t there with an overlay of mysticism to give you plausible deniability about what you’re doing.
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polysemous
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when a word or phrase has multiple meanings (from Greek)
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Again, the polysemy of language gives rise to conspiracy theories
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Again, the polysemy of language gives rise to conspiracy theories
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fideism
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(noun) reliance on faith rather than reason in pursuit of religious truth
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Our contest was not one between intellect and irrational fideism. I had to work hard to win because he had arguments, however uneven in quality
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Our contest was not one between intellect and irrational fideism. I had to work hard to win because he had arguments, however uneven in quality
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