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VERITAS REGNUM IS A BLOG THAT WILL TRY TO DELVE INTO SOME OF THE MORE CONTEMPLATIVE QUESTIONS OF OUR REALITY AND SEPARATE IDEOLOGY FROM OBJECTIVE FACTUAL REALITY.
about the blogger
- Jeremy M. Prince
- Allen, Texas, United States
- Just a curious person asking tough questions and coming up with uncomfortable answers.
veritas regnum
Welcome to veritas regnum - latin for "the rulership of truth". As the subtitle suggests, what I'd like to use this blog for is a medium to discuss some of the more unsavory questions facing our heads and hearts. Moreover I want to ask the tough questions that try to cut through the difference between real truth and mere ideology.
truth
Truth, for the purposes of this blog, will be defined as "objective and factual reality." All too often people have tried to replace truth with a cheap substitute, such as a belief or even an opinion. Truth has several elements to it that make it truth:
- It is universal: it applies equally to everyone regardless of whether everyone equally affirms it. Truth, however, cannot be truth unless it is true everywhere all of the time.
- It is factual: while fact and truth are different in nature truth must retain a high degree of factuality and cannot be truth without it.
- It is objective: truth holds no allegiances except to itself. Truth cannot be filtered or molded to an agenda or an ideology. Truth is its own core and is not an extension of any prevailing thought or idea.
- It is universal: it applies equally to everyone regardless of whether everyone equally affirms it. Truth, however, cannot be truth unless it is true everywhere all of the time.
- It is factual: while fact and truth are different in nature truth must retain a high degree of factuality and cannot be truth without it.
- It is objective: truth holds no allegiances except to itself. Truth cannot be filtered or molded to an agenda or an ideology. Truth is its own core and is not an extension of any prevailing thought or idea.
ideology - the enemy of truth
Ideology, as it relates to this blog, will be defined as "consciously formulated, integrated belief system, typically arising during a time of social strain. The ideology becomes the basis of programs of action and provides the believers with a sense of identity."*
*This definition is provided by Daniel Walker Howe and Clifford Geertz and is sourced in the book titled, "The Political Culture of the American Whigs" by Daniel Walker Howe.
*This definition is provided by Daniel Walker Howe and Clifford Geertz and is sourced in the book titled, "The Political Culture of the American Whigs" by Daniel Walker Howe.
topics covered so far...
- abortion (2)
- adultery (1)
- America (1)
- anatomy of truth (4)
- anthropocentrism (1)
- asking questions (2)
- assumptions (2)
- authoritative (1)
- axioms (2)
- belief (5)
- bias (1)
- Bible (3)
- brickitanity (1)
- capitalism (2)
- Christianity (7)
- church history (3)
- church of truth (1)
- civilization (1)
- communism (2)
- conservatism (1)
- conversation (1)
- convictions (1)
- credibility (1)
- crime management (1)
- criminal justice (1)
- critical discovery (2)
- Dallas Willard (2)
- Democracy (1)
- divine character (1)
- divine inspiration (2)
- dogma (3)
- Dr. King (1)
- e (1)
- empirical skepticism (1)
- ends (1)
- ethics (3)
- exclusive (1)
- fact (4)
- faith (1)
- fertility god (1)
- generosity (1)
- giving (1)
- God (2)
- government (3)
- Greek (1)
- Hebrew (1)
- Henry David Thoeau (1)
- holocaust (1)
- homosexuality (1)
- honesty (1)
- hypothesis (1)
- ideology (6)
- inclusive (1)
- indoctrination (1)
- inerrant (1)
- inference (1)
- Influential Quotes (2)
- intellectual honesty (1)
- interpretation (2)
- ism (1)
- Jesus (9)
- John Locke (1)
- justice (2)
- knowledge (3)
- language gap (1)
- law (1)
- Law and Order (1)
- luxury (1)
- Martin Luther (1)
- means (1)
- morality (2)
- neurosis (1)
- new birth (1)
- New Testament (3)
- objectivity (3)
- ontocentrism (1)
- ontology (1)
- opinion (1)
- ownership (1)
- Pagan Christianity (1)
- paganism (1)
- Paul (2)
- philosophical truth (2)
- politics (1)
- poverty (2)
- privacy (2)
- reality (11)
- religion (2)
- responsibilities (3)
- rights (3)
- rigid (1)
- Roman culture (1)
- scientific method (1)
- social justice (2)
- socialism (1)
- spirituality (1)
- textual criticism (1)
- the Bible (2)
- theology (3)
- theopneustos (1)
- theory (1)
- Thomas Jefferson (1)
- Thomas Paine (1)
- Trancendentalism (1)
- translation (1)
- truth (10)
- unchurched (1)
- universal (1)
- values (2)
- victims (1)
- virtue (1)
- war (1)
- William Booth (1)
- worldviews (1)
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