 But now suppose you come to accept certain ordinary (non-moral) truths of revealed religion: the doctrine of original sin, and the possibility of joining your suffering with that of Christ. Now in light of accepting these ideas, it becomes possible to see for yourself that there is indeed something good about the ascetic life. So, you need not accept this moral claim itself on the basis of religious revelation, but you accept it on the basis of other truths themselves accepted as revelation. Moral truths, however, always can in principle be graspable without needing to trust another. Even though there need be nothing bad about trusting an authority who teaches about morality, their teachings, if true, could be arrived at otherwise.