Prejudice may be defined as a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. In other words, prejudices are opinions and/or ideas that are not based on sound philosophical principles or scientific knowledge. To use an old, trite expression, “prejudices are as common as house flies” — we all have them. No rational being can possibly ever escape the pitfall of an occasional prejudice because none except God has a perfect intellect with which to know and understand everything. Therefore, no matter how sincerely we try, each of us in turn becomes a little ‘red-faced’ with internal embarrassment when we come face to face with the reality of our mistaken assumption(s).
Oftentimes, our state of prejudicial thinking is enhanced by biases which have been instilled in us over the years by one prejudicial source or another. The most common of those sources are our parents, teachers, friends, and acquaintances. Often, the source may be a book we have read which seems to us to be the ‘gospel truth’ but which may factually be a total untruth. Likewise, TV commentators present us with their ‘version of prejudicial truth’ and belief but, fact-checking shows it to be total propaganda.
As with most non-scientific considerations in this universe, nowhere is that prejudicial disparity with truth more apparent or common than in the fields of politics and religion. Typically, politicians present us with one accepted truth but then flavor that truth with many untruths — such efforts may be described as ‘rationalizations. Typically, each politician knows the basic predominant prejudices in his/her audience and through the process of rationalization plays to those prejudices with a mixture of other seemingly harmonious prejudices flavored with known or suspected biases. Those biases themselves are little more than bundled or compressed prejudices — influence is easier that way — a method as ‘old as the hills’. It has been described in many ways but ‘influence peddling’ is a common descriptive term often applied.
It seems ironic, but in a democracy, the most educated and philosophically sound individuals are at the mercy of the hoards who, typically are less educated and less scientifically and philosophically sound — seemingly, a singular method which pleases everyone does not exist.
Those same prejudices and biases apply equally to religion. Remember, there was a time when no scientific understanding of anything existed — the earth was flat, the sun, moon and stars controlled basically everything; the earth was the ‘center of the universe’. The Universe was created by a long-haired, grizzled old man-like god who was so worn out that after six days of hard work he had to rest on the seventh day.
There is another well-worn expression that ‘perception is reality’, and that is so very true. If we think something is a certain way, then it becomes ‘truth’ for us as individuals. Therein lies the very foundation of prejudice.
From the standpoint of faith and religion, I have come to understand that all are based on fairytale imaginations generated through meaningless assumptions by people who had no scientific knowledge or understanding of anything — all they had was their everyday observations. Attempting to explain a causal relationship demanded they concoct plausible explanatory perceptions which became their reality.
Whoever wrote those stories and thousands to follow were the most ignorant (unknowledgeable), prejudiced, and ultimately biased people who ever existed on this earth. All their prejudices and ultimate biases were based on imagination, mythology, astrology, and likely wishful thinking. And you guessed it — as time progressed, politicians and preachers (leaders, teachers etc.) of one kind or another sprang up everywhere. Six thousand or so years later, just glance at our earth — thousands and thousands of religions in existence — each is driven by a self-made, man-made thirst for power, money and control fueled by unbridled prejudices and biases. Each, in turn, is a myth for one simple, provable reason — none knows the god who it worships — not one of them is able to define the essence of its god.
I have explained many times before how and why I began to see overt discrepancy in what I was taught and what I could observe. I was an A student in late Elementary and High school and studied intently the strict Roman Catholic Catechism which I was being taught with the certainty of arithmetic by the very educated Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky. Initially, I accepted everything as truth without question. However, as I observed discrepancies between what I was being taught and what I could see and experience forced me to ask questions where, generally, no questions were allowed. My friendly priest told me they were the result of God’s Will. At that very moment I determined to uncover the truth about God and religion. As many of you know, it took me sixty-five additional years to find that irrefutable truth and when I did, the results were explosive.
I discovered there is a ‘perfect rationality’ in this universe — every consideration is governed by a perfect truth system outside of which there is no truth. I discovered that perfect truth system to be manifested and governed by perfect particles of energy known as quanta which themselves exist in eternity. I discovered that many, maybe most scientists believe the universe began nearly fourteen billion years ago by an event known as The Big Bang. Prior to that event there was no time because there was no change (time is a measure of change). It is accepted by those scientists that all the energy that exists in the universe today was released from a tiny speck known as ‘the singularity’. That energy was/is in the form of quanta which Immediately began doing perfectly what each was designed to do and is still doing—time began — the universe, very slowly by our measure, began to evolve to the point where it is now.
With that knowledge and understanding, I reasoned to the definition of God’s essence. No one can prove nor disprove the existence of God — that is the only realistic legitimacy of ‘faith’. However, Since the universe operates in a state of ‘perfect rationality’ which is exhibited and controlled by a ‘perfect truth system’, I am justified in accepting the existence of that God and I have defined its essence thus, “God is a Perfect Rational Being”. That definition is irrefutable and one hundred percent defensible on both sound scientific and sound philosophical principles. Furthermore, that definition demands existence of Trinity God, but not with the inclusion of Jesus of Nazareth.
Trinity God explained —
The Perfect Rational Being (Father) reflects upon itself and sees a mirror image (Son) perfect and identical which in the supernatural is a living being. Two Perfect, identical beings viewing each other have no choice but to accept, love, choose, will each other. That perpetual acceptance, loving, choosing, willing each other is the Holy Spirit or the Will of God. So, the conclusion is obvious, God is all things and ‘all things’ are God. Jesus, Saint Francis of Assisi, and Meister Ekhart are three notable I am aware of who recognized that concept before me.
So, in summary, it is easy to see how our unbridled imaginations generating prejudices not supported by known truth can do, and have done immeasurable, disastrous damage to our beautiful planet.
Most of you are aware that I have written extensively about this philosophy but for those who are not aware, my three books, Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic explain the foundations of my philosophy and carry it to many, many conclusions. In addition, my little book, Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky, may interest you — all are available both e-book and hardcopy from Amazon-Kindle, and autographed from me (handg@comcast.net).
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