Tuesday, September 29, 2009

I believe with complete bias that "God" exists

Is Faith just another word for bias? Of course it is! Duh. And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know, cos here I go again....

Bias is an issue for scientific facts. but talk of the supernatural is not scientific. I'm not sure what it is, but it's not about facts. It's about a certain orientation to life. So when it comes to asserting that life has meaning and value, and that the ground of all being is defined by "13 attributes of mercy" I see nothing scientific or factual about that at all. It's a subjective value statement, just like morality. And when it comes to morality, it's all about bias. And there's nothing wrong with that at all.

So what about TMS? Well, the historical fact of certain things being written at certain times by certain people is certainly factual (or not), and therefore "bias" could be an issue. But when it comes to asserting that certain texts (or rather ideas in the texts) are Divinely Inpsired, again, this is a value statement, and is of course subject to bias, as it should be.

Now please excuse me, I have to go and work so that I can afford to spend 60% of my salary on biasing my kids for the next 15 years. And I'm fine with that (though I wish it was more like 10%).

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