Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Tyranny of Ignorance & Prejudice

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. 

-- Benjamin Franklin



...we are being seriously played by the current machinery of political personality.
Religious prejudices are the deepest of all prejudices, and religious conservatism is the most conservative of all conservatisms. It may take a whole generation to emancipate the mass of the people from the tyranny of ignorance and prejudice.
-- Philip Schaff, 1885


So, on that premise, it's only going to get worse, unless we embrace a more fundamental shift:

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