Affairs interpersonal and of the world are conducted according to the values and beliefs of the involved individuals and conglomerates, and often engaged with based upon conflicting variants thereof. These ideological confrontations theoretically serve as a means of cultural progression whereby differing perspectives are compared and adjusted toward a unified state of objectivity. Eventually society will achieve enlightenment, dispensing with all corrupt selfishly conceived biases and attaining to eternal harmony – or at least that’s the narrative of secularism as it tends to be presented.
Secularism is popularized as dispensing with subjectivity in favor of “science,” which is to say it supposedly relies solely upon collective human experience instead of individual human experience. The underlying presupposition is that collective experience is more likely to yield objectivity than divided personal perception. Put differently, this is an exercise of illicit generalization, which is the presumption of fact from limited example. While technically a viable form of inductive reasoning, democratic determination of ultimate truth is subject to the same deficiencies as autonomy, mainly that the biases of those upholding the standard corrupt its results.
In reality, there is no such thing as “unbiased;” everyone has presuppositional beliefs emotional and rational by which they judge new information. Maturity is being able to identify your own biases and determine their validity; yet this is necessarily paradoxical, since the standard applied will inevitably be integral to the bias. The only way to avoid circular justification is to establish a transcendental objectivity existent outside and independent of its adherents. There is no way around this; even the atheistic dissenter will appeal to “common ground” in defense of his assertions. By nature of definition, this becomes a matter of metaphysics and religion, and thus the secularist claim of worldly objectivity is undone.
I would urge anyone who has placed their faith in Earthly authority to reconsider the wisdom of such a position. Examine yourselves and your beliefs, identify the core presuppositional principles you truly rely on, and scrutinize them for whatever faults there may be in them. As you subject your worldview to judgement, recall to mind the warning of Christ: “Everyone then who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who build his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.” (Matthew 7:24-27)
Be biased for Christ! TTT