Let's Awaken with Bacon who was not Jamaican!

February 27, 2009.

A week before my I-Seach is due, I learned about Francis Bacon and his Four Idols.

In Christianity, idolatry is considered a grievous sin. Bacon uses the argument of the church against it by claiming the Christianity philosophy had engaged in four forms of idolatry;

Idol Number One! - Idol of the Tribe

• The bias of human beings to jump to conclusions based on what is new or strange rather than investing time to understand what is true.

Idol Number Two! - Idol of the Cave

• Creating individual biases through the educational system.

Idol Number Three! - Idol of the Marketplace

• The language created to share knowledge. For example, philosophy is more concerned with winning arguments than revealing the truth. And it looks us into specific ways of knowing.

Idol Number Four! - Idol of the Theatre

• The Christian West was given reverence to four or five Greek scholars and has ignored any other understanding of the world.

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