The Blind Men and the Elephant Analogy is a common argument used by religious pluralists to illustrate their belief that all religions are essentially equal.
Therefore, none of the blind men are wrong per se, because they have different views and experiences of the same thing. The argument goes that religious people are just like the blind men feeling the elephant, just encountering the same truth in different ways.
On the surface, this can be a convincing argument and hard to defend—but it shouldn’t be, because it is built upon flawed logic.
In the video below, Matt Chandler offers a powerful rebuttal to this common parable.
“The only way the parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant makes any sense is if the narrator of the story sees the whole elephant.”
“The moment you claim ultimate reality is unknowable, you have just claimed the knowledge of what you said can’t be known! This is intellectually inconsistent.” Matt Chandler
A version of this post originally published on December 28, 2012.
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