The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.