Mr. Moderate

In the Bible, the Book of John, Chapter 8, verses 31-32 reads (more or less) like this:
8:31 Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples
8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

In this essay, I will make the same claim that Jesus made, above. If you believe me, and you follow my teaching, “you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Now, Jesus was trying to teach the Jews to be free from sin. But of course, my objective is to teach you to be free of sin too. In my case, you will be free of sin by recognizing it as an incoherent concept which cannot have any hold over you unless you willingly enslave yourself to the idea of sin. Once you reject the idea of sin, you are immediately free of sin, and of coercion by any church which preaches that you must do penance (usually by paying money) repeatedly for your sins, which the church will repeatedly assert you commit almost continuously when you are not at church doing penance (usually by paying money). Thus, this freedom I give you is economically valuable to you, as it gets you out of a lifetime of doing penance (usually by paying money).
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Epistemology is “the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity.” (Websters Dictionary) That is a fancy way of saying that it is the study of how we know things are true or false, and what degree of certainty we can assign to any particular tidbit of alleged knowledge.
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