Prejudice

Prejudice means making a judgment without looking carefully at the evidence. It usually involves a bias towards what we want to believe or what we have been programmed to believe. Our picture of God is the most vulnerable victim to our prejudice and the most damaging to every other belief. Because it is a maxim that we inevitably transform into the image of the god we believe in, our prejudices about what God must be like translate directly into how we relate to others and even to ourselves.