If you're a racist, and have no bones about it. This is not to say you aren't a believer, or your salvation is in question, only can you honestly go around calling yourself a Christian?
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Can you be Racist and also be a Christian?
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NO! No follower of the teachings of Christ would be comfortable being a racist. A Christian would feel terrible about judging someone based on the color of their skin or anything else external. God love all the people of every race, and so should we.
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no. Christ commanded us to love all people, even non-Christians (I am not implying that people of other races are non-Christians). If He was so bold as to say we should go even as far as loving non-Christians, then it's ridiculous that we should discriminate against someone for something as arbitrary as skin color or ethnicity.
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Also remember Jesus Christ's racial and ethnic background. Jesus Himself was a near-full-blooded Jew (only Ruth, a Moabite, prevented Him from being a full-blooded Jew). Jews of Christ's time, well before they were scattered by the Romans and mixed-in with other races, looked very similar to Arabs, as both groups are descended from Abraham. Not to mention that Jesus physically blended-in with society and looked like the rest of them, causing many people to doubt Him. If He didn't look like the society around Him, then people wouldn't doubt that He was God; but because society "saw" no difference between Him and everyone else, they doubted His Diety.
If anyone were to call themselves Christians and yet grasp onto the racist mindset, they should think about what their "Lord's" racial/ethnic background was.
P.S. btw, this is why I don't even purchase paintings of Jesus, because of the inaccuracy of portraying Him as caucasian.
If anyone were to call themselves Christians and yet grasp onto the racist mindset, they should think about what their "Lord's" racial/ethnic background was.
P.S. btw, this is why I don't even purchase paintings of Jesus, because of the inaccuracy of portraying Him as caucasian.
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I can eat 50 eggs
what we have here is a failure to communicate
It's a sin, just like any other that you need to work on.
Just like any other sin, your heart can be hardened so that you no longer recognize it's a sin.
Didn't you know the KKK was a "christian" organization (seriously)
Just like any other sin, your heart can be hardened so that you no longer recognize it's a sin.
Didn't you know the KKK was a "christian" organization (seriously)
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Racism is definitely contrary to Christ's teachings (look at his behavior towards the Samaritans and early Christianity's acceptance of the Gentiles). However, I would not say that racists cannot be Christians. It is a failing, but we all have failings.
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If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. - I John 4:20, NASB
and...
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. - I John 3:15, NASB
I fear for the souls of unabashed racists.
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yes and no. like i know of areas in texas, such as the deep south, where people are still racists. these people have lived there all there lives, haven't been in any other area, and still have the racist mindset of their ancestors. it may be hard to believe, but some don't know that it's wrong. it's normal for them to think of white has supreme.
but i think that once you come to the knowledge that racism is wrong, and that "all men were created equal", you will turn around...
but i think that once you come to the knowledge that racism is wrong, and that "all men were created equal", you will turn around...
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Well, being from MS my entire life, let me give some additional input. There are two types of racism: cultural, and active. Cultural racism is the general sense that people of other races are a threat to a person's well-being, whether that be financial, social, emotional, or otherwise. Active racism is a concerted effort to suppress and/or eradicate people of other races from all aspects of American life. Culturals will lock their car doors when a person of another race walks by at the traffic light, will let the occasional "n-word" slip, etc. Activists, however, go to meetings and organize rallies and political drives to remove other races from American govt., education, etc. I also believe that there are those that exist in-between as well. But anyone that can hate other races so much as to form an organized effort against them, in my opinion, needs to check their spiritual pulse.
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Yes, unfortunately that is true. They believe that blacks are animals and that all Jews are condemned for eternity for killing Jesus.
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I don't know if you have ever witnessed a KKK rally, but they are definitely NOT followers of the teachings of Christ, and they actually view Christ as a sort of weakling, denying any power in him, or the presence og God in him. It is an outrage to them that God would be born into a Jewish body, thus they have remodeled Jesus in their own terms, making him a white man who died at the hands of wicked Jews because of racial bigotry. They actually view their hatred of Jews as being justified by the killing of Christ.
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I think it is possible to struggle with racism and be a Christian, but I think you would have to hate that part about you and strive to alter that character defect with a passion!
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I have never witnessed a KKK rally, but I've seen their website. It's pretty disgusting. They claim at one point that their view is Equal Rights for All, Special Rights for None, but then they go on to claim that only whites deserve any Rights.
So basically, they want special rights for whites, and not equal rights.
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I don't buy the whole "struggle with racism" bit. Either you are racist or you aren't. It's not something where there is a "process" to getting rid of, either you believe one way or you believe another way. Either you believe that other races are lesser beings, or you don't.
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I disagree with that caley. I struggled with it for years. Not overt racism with rocks and hatred, but covert racism, always feeling odd around people of another race, especially blacks.
Not long ago, I decided to do something about that. So I started trying to figure out why I felt that way. I asked God to show me where those bad feelings were coming from, and he did!
When I was a very young girl, that's when all the race riots of the '60's were happening. And just a few miles from where my family lived, there was a riot in which some white people had been dragged out of their house and beaten, and the father was killed. White people's houses were being set on fire, too. I was very young, like four or five, old enough to understand the danger, but not old enough to understand what was happening. I remembered thinking, "Why do they want to kill us because we are white?!" I was very afraid.
When God brought this back to my memory, I realized that that fear was still with me, still driving my racism. I was still afraid in a childlike way that black people want to kill me because I am white. I repented of that foolish, childish way of thinking and asked God to heal that part of my mind, to take away the fear. And He did. And I don't feel that way around people of other races now.
It can be a struggle for some people like me.
Not long ago, I decided to do something about that. So I started trying to figure out why I felt that way. I asked God to show me where those bad feelings were coming from, and he did!
When I was a very young girl, that's when all the race riots of the '60's were happening. And just a few miles from where my family lived, there was a riot in which some white people had been dragged out of their house and beaten, and the father was killed. White people's houses were being set on fire, too. I was very young, like four or five, old enough to understand the danger, but not old enough to understand what was happening. I remembered thinking, "Why do they want to kill us because we are white?!" I was very afraid.
When God brought this back to my memory, I realized that that fear was still with me, still driving my racism. I was still afraid in a childlike way that black people want to kill me because I am white. I repented of that foolish, childish way of thinking and asked God to heal that part of my mind, to take away the fear. And He did. And I don't feel that way around people of other races now.
It can be a struggle for some people like me.
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