Does exercising the metaphorical-muscles of Faith also stimulate Prejudice?
Harper Lee in her 1st attempt at a novel before she made “To Kill A Mockingbird”, later released as “Go Set a Watchman”, wrote “Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
Do you find overwhelming prejudice coming from those of overwhelming faith?
Is Faith merely gilded Prejudice?
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5 responses to “Faith & Prejudice: What’s the Difference?”
Here ye of Faith(?), lemme help y’out…..sheeesh….
THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE
also
https://www.c-span.org/video/?443980-1/after-words-mohammed-al-samawi
Faith properly done is far more open-ended than prejudice.
That professed faith sometimes spins into prejudice is as humanly inevitable as professed love sometimes spinning into toxic using and devouring psycopathies.
There usually has to be an element of deception or deceit for this to happen (not seeking the truth).
Shades of arrogance and/or resentment don’t help things either.
It’s also important to ask just what said faith is in. (A human generated ideal or something Transcendent)
@griz
What about a faith with those 4 pro-secular parameters in @jear77‘s atlantic article link?
“Using a separate model, Future of Religion and Secular Transitions (forest), the team found that people tend to secularize when four factors are present: existential security (you have enough money and food), personal freedom (you’re free to choose whether to believe or not), pluralism (you have a welcoming attitude to diversity), and education (you’ve got some training in the sciences and humanities). If even one of these factors is absent, the whole secularization process slows down. This, they believe, is why the U.S. is secularizing at a slower rate than Western and Northern Europe.”
It seems like these things must be met with in any well society and if you can have a faith like the inner-faith cats in the video on top of that, you can get some shit done.
Your prolonged exposure to benzene makes you say crazy shit like joy & happiness are two different things.
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-last-laugh-7a3ujx/