The reality of the slippery slope?

[jfrog]

I used to laugh off slippery slope arguments. They are a fallacy afterall. But I no longer find slippery slopes to be a laughing matter.

Slippery slopes are a real phenomenon. They occur because the foundation of a belief has deteriorated into tradition. Once that foundation is tradition and it gets washed away by an argument that reveals it's just tradition then the foundation is lost and if a replacement isn't quickly found then more and more beliefs that were built upon that foundation also crumble.

I believe standards at this point for most churches are based on tradition. Since whatever true foundation that started those standards has deteriorated into just a tradition then it's easy to show that standards are just a tradition and since tradition for the sake of tradition isn't revered in our movement then all the standards start crumbling away.

However, this crumbling of fundamental beliefs also causes other closely related beliefs to be examined and since one belief was based on tradition it becomes much easier to become convinced other fundamental beliefs were also wrong, etc. Before long you see people sliding away from almost everything they once believed, all because one foundation of our beliefs deteriorated into just being tradition.

The cure is to restore the foundation to something that isn't tradition and to remove any beliefs that are only propped up the current tradition based foundation.