The Tautology of False Doctrine
October 8th, 2007 by Andrew Chalkley
Whilst wasting my life away on YouTube I came across a comment on a video. It said that a particular denomination of Christianity was “a completely false doctrine“.
That got me thinking, what does “false doctrine” mean? All doctrines are false – even if it’s from someone else’s theological perspective. If you say theirs is false, yours is often equally false from their perspective. Obviously any doctrine, decreed by some unproven supernatural entity, from an atheist’s point of view is false since there is not such entity. Doctrine cannot be absolutely true since the existence of that being is also not absolute. That’s why you need faith, isn’t it theists?
To say that any religion is a false doctrine when you subscribe to another doctrine on the grounds of faith is actually nothing short of name calling, especially when you do not support your position with evidence or even engage in a debate. Pride inhibits the individual from seeing simple logic. Pride in their “true” doctrine, pride in their life of faithfulness, how could they be wrong after all this time? They think it’s better to dismiss the others theological point of view by saying it’s false. Simple. Then logic (if it was ever there) departs and becomes a faith-to-faith stand off. Stalemate.
Doctrines of any faith should be taken with pinch of salt. Due to there being no absolute truth in the existence of a deity there cannot be an absolute true doctrine. No god, no doctrine. Doctrines are therefore false as their false gods. “False doctrine” is a case of tautology and should be removed from everybody’s vocabulary.
