Prejudice And Piety Pavlov
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Long ago the Russian scientist Pavlov found that if he rang a bell each time he fed his dogs, they very soon began to associate the sound of the bell with the food. Then, he could ring the bell without feeding them and they would still drool. One of our glories as human persons is that we are or should be capable of making reasonable judgments on some higher basis than Pavlov's dogs. But many of us still fail to do so. Nathana-el, the original urban sophisticate, was one of these. At the thought of a small town like Nazareth, Nathana-el had an instant Pavlovian response: Nazareth? DING! What good could come out of Nazareth? Philip, on the other hand, had a much more sensible attitude: Come and see. Nathana-el to his credit took that advice and, when he saw, instantly repented his unthinking prejudice. This Advent, let's take some time to reassess our easy equations and thoughtless prejudices. After all, God may have a Christmas present wrapped up for us in a very unlikely package too.
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