“10/21/2009, 11:15am EST”
Twit of the Day - 10/21/09
biblejournal: 2 Peter 1:5 “and to integrity add knowledge” You need knowledge of God and the Bible to have integrity, otherwise it is meaningless…
To which I reply: “Please, do continue — I’m really interested in the ontological ideas of people who just make shit up.” Sarcasm aside, I am fascinated — morbidly — by people who strongly believe their own bullshit. Mr. or Ms. biblejournal doesn’t have any idea whatsoever what he/she is talking about, and they would know that if they had stopped to consider whether or not they could even define “integrity.”
In fact, the word “integrity” is ideology-neutral — it simply means “consistency.” When I say integrity is meaningful, it is because the presence of contradiction within a particular system entails that the system is false. Ascription to falsehoods, whether active or passive, is the #1 cause of destruction and evil acts in our world, so it’s extremely consequential whether or not someone has integrity or cares about embodying integrity.
On a related note, the meaning-ness of a genuinely meaningful concept is, by definition, independent of whether or not it’s been asserted in writing — in the Bible or anywhere else. Indeed, the meaning or value of “integrity,” like all concepts, is independent of whether or not anyone ever acknowledged it in any way whatsoever. If something is actual or meaningful, it must by definition be belief-independent.
