Reply #118: Is there only one way to understanding? How does one account for idiot savants?

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Reason can also be the means by which what calls itself religion is refined into something with a little less detritus.

Yes, that begins with the hypothesis that religious authority IS in error about that which they claim authority over, but that's THEIR fault, having little to do with the actual nature of truth, to which there CAN be a variety of relationships, some of which are of or pertaining to reason and others of which are not of that order.