To value them equally requires a devaluation of propositional truth claims.
As "truth" claims were taught to children they became embedded within societal and political apparatuses.
As it happens, explicit truth claims are not entirely dispensable.
If so, how do other religions, which also have exclusive truth claims and strong moral standards, get a pass?
It means respecting those who make genuine truth claims, and giving them a voice in the public debate.
I have said that for a student to make a truth claim, whether original or not, the student has to own it.
But religion's truth claims don't want your respect.
In the end, the great world religions stand or fall on the validity of their truth claims.
A truth claim is that which a particular person or belief system holds to be true.
Positive truth claims proclaim the existence of an object or entity.
