Atheists don’t have a definition of truth

Belief in God is not necessary to understand what truth is. I think many religious folks wrongly think that it is because of how they decide what is true or not: by total reliance on a chosen authority. 

There are several types of truth in philosophy. The one to which I hold is the “correspondence” theory which says:

To be true is to accurately describe – in other words, match, picture, depict, express, conform to, agree with or correspond to – the real world or parts of it. For example, the proposition that a cat is on a mat is true if a real cat is on a real mat. Otherwise, that proposition fails to be true.”

This makes far more sense to me than slavish devotion to my interpretation of the writings of bronze-age goat herders who knew less about the world they lived in than an average fifth grade student today. 

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