According to Milton, why or how does truth become a "heresy" if a person only believes things because his pastor or his government tells him so?
According to Milton, truth becomes a “heresy” if a person only believes things because his pastor or his government tells him so. As Milton states “There is not any burden that som would gladlier post off to another, then the charge and care of their Religion”. Unfortunally, we still live in a society where the majority of people agree with what their Religion or government have to say and there is no other truth but that one that it has being said, even when knowing it is wrong. Just because people see some one in power (in this case a pastor or a government official), they have the tendency of believing everything that they say is true without asking themselves questions about the issue.
Why does Milton find that dangerous?
Milton find that dangerous because people are not thinking for themselves but rather they are given the authority to some other human being who makes mistakes as every one else. It doesn’t matter if he/she is a priest or a government official; he/she is still someone who does not have the right answers all the time. People need to be open minded and they have to realize that there are many possibilities out there and just because someone tells you something is wrong, you first have to figure it for yourself.
Do you agree with Milton? Why?
I agree with Milton because we cannot allow church or government to tell us every minute what is right and what is wrong. We need to think critically, but for that we need to be open minded about everything that surrounds us. Life is about having equilibrium in the things that one does and if church or government have the absolute balance in everything, then we do not have the freedom to choose.
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You are right on "we cannot allow church or government to tell us every minute what is right and what is wrong", because if we do, life would be boring, and everyone will be doing the same thing as you are. That we have the right to believe what we what to, and no truth one can tell us otherwise.We find our own truth to believe, We find our own truth to believe, not the other way around.
I agree with you that we need to use our minds and not agree with everything we are told. But with todays society do we really have the ability to tell that official that they are full of it. We don't really have the ability to go against someone in power.
Just imagine how little our world would have progressed if nobody ever had a different idea of "the truth." Once upon a time, it was "the truth" that a woman couldn't lead a nation or that a man of color wasn't intelligent enough to be the president of a company let alone of a nation. My, how much those "truths" have changed!
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