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Originally Posted by Aaron W.
If you're not building your framework on "reason alone" then it's "reason" plus what?
Reason, evidence, a willingness to change one's mind etc.
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What secular assumptions are you willing to accept? How would such a framework of secular assumptions be superior to a religious framework?
There is an important difference between assumptions and dogma that you are incautiously glossing over. Assumptions are tentative and dropped if they turn out to be fruitless or contradicted by evidence. Dogma,
by definition, is incapable of such epistemic humility.
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I'm trying to take them at face value. You are proposing that the "big questions" are answered using a "thought-based" secular framework because it's superior to a "dogma-based" religious framework.
I didn't say "answered".
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But if you accept that the "thought-based" secular framework carries assumptions that can be reasonably construed to be dogma (base assumptions that are to be taken as true), why do you have such a strong objection to dogma?
See above.
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Why are your assumptions better than someone else's assumptions?
Again, check the definitions of the words you are equivocating.