The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was not a bad idea. It was scorned and mocked in the 20th century because it had become so unwieldy and impractical, based on the widespread use of the printing press and other media such as film, television, and music.
Now, "truth" is an interesting thing. Ricky Gervais decided that the founders of Christianity were the lying liars, perhaps because their stories were not concretely, verifiably true in every historical detail, and therefore Ricky concluded that Christianity is a fabric of lies made up to make people feel better or control us or something.
Unfortunately it's Ricky who's got the short end of the Truth. Because Truth is more than just facts that are printed in a newspaper about the daily police blotter. Once you accept that there are higher, more important Truths than what you'll find in Wikipedia, we'll all be a lot better off. And we can better evaluate those lower-order facts and figures for what they really are.
Ok you’re espousing a view that’s fringe on HN and of course you were downvoted (not by me), but I’d just like to raise a technical point:
The truth of Wikipedia is epistemic, as is the truth of theology, and as such it’s possible to evaluate them in different epistemic systems and draw different conclusions.
But capital-t Truth is capitalized to indicate that it is an ontological rather epistemological signifier, i.e. a name referring to a personal entity.
So technically speaking God is not a higher or lower truth, in the sense of the verity of a proposition, as you can’t compare a person with a fact.
If we start conflating epistemology with ontology, then... God help us! We’ll end up calling night day, and figuratively literally :)
Now, "truth" is an interesting thing. Ricky Gervais decided that the founders of Christianity were the lying liars, perhaps because their stories were not concretely, verifiably true in every historical detail, and therefore Ricky concluded that Christianity is a fabric of lies made up to make people feel better or control us or something.
Unfortunately it's Ricky who's got the short end of the Truth. Because Truth is more than just facts that are printed in a newspaper about the daily police blotter. Once you accept that there are higher, more important Truths than what you'll find in Wikipedia, we'll all be a lot better off. And we can better evaluate those lower-order facts and figures for what they really are.