“It is possible to believe conflicting claims without rejecting any of them.”

A claim without context means little. But to be clear, for me, anyway, it is not a matter of believing conflicting claims without rejecting them, but simply a matter of seeing/listening to the multiple, universal and unique claims that are circulating.

It seems to me that there is a rather large cadre of people that are unable/unwilling to even look at or just listen to the multiple claims. They even go so far as to deny that there are or even can be multiple, unique and universal claims. Many seem to think there is One and Only One possible claim to Universality.

I’m simply saying stop, look and listen. As an empirical matter and an auditory matter, there are multiple, unique and universal claims circulating. I am not personally asking anyone to believe in all of them or any of them—just to recognize that they are there whether you like it or not.

We can evaluate the various competing narratives all day long. Ultimately, though, faith in one claim over another is not a product of comparative analysis. Trust, not comparison, is the stuff of faith.