A society in which any kind of nonsense is acceptable is not a free society. An agnostic pluralism has no defense against nonsense. So while a committed pluralism values freedom as the necessary (though not sufficient) condition for grasping the truth about the real world, the fundamental relationship between truth and freedom is that enunciated by Jesus when he said, “The truth shall make you free.
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| — | Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p60 |
