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RE: Truth vs Fact and Dynamic vs Static within Belief Systems
A fact is only a fact if it is true.
Incorrect.
Facts are unchanging. Truth can change as it is our subjective interpretation of facts also coupled with our own speculations and hypothesis. Christians believe one truth. Muslims another. Hindus another. Scientists also have different truths.
Truth can change. Facts are the things that do not. A "car" hit a barrier. Car is a fact. Why the car hit the barrier would be a truth, and involve a lot of speculations.
So how do you define truth? Again, "truth is relative" is an absolute statement, and so must be false to be true. It doesn't make any sense.
No, all these groups believe different things. Just because one believes something doesn't make it true. Like I said before, for the better part of human history, we believed the earth was the center of the universe. That didn't make it true.