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Where in the Bible would people get that idea from? (sorry if you posted it earlier and I missed it.)
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Where in the Bible would people get that idea from? (sorry if you posted it earlier and I missed it.)Well, that may be, brother, but IF the Bible says that God separated the races and didn't intend for them to comingle, well then, what are you going to do about that fact?
We might want to see if we can find out who the judge presiding over the grand jury was in that case, because as your document notes, the comment you've posted above was his 'opinion,' which leaves me to think that he had terrible hermeneutical ability, next to nil even.
Where in the Bible would people get that idea from? (sorry if you posted it earlier and I missed it.)
Where in the Bible would people get that idea from? (sorry if you posted it earlier and I missed it.)
Well, that may be, brother, but IF the Bible says that God separated the races and didn't intend for them to comingle, well then, what are you going to do about that fact?
That's true enough, but when the political system tolerates a certain practice (identity politics, in this case), it poisons the culture.There's "identity politics" and then there's "racial identity politics," and this latter kind of thinking really shouldn't manifest among those who call themselves "Christian."
That's true enough, but when the political system tolerates a certain practice (identity politics, in this case), it poisons the culture.
When people dare speak up about the long legacy and continued effects of legislated and cultural white supremacy.... yeah they can just be dismissed with "but identity politics!".That's true enough, but when the political system tolerates a certain practice (identity politics, in this case), it poisons the culture.
When people dare speak up about the long legacy and continued effects of legislated and cultural white supremacy.... yeah they can just be dismissed with "but identity politics!".
Okay. That's what I was saying.Yes, I agree, but in the U.S. "identity" has always been a political issue, even before that dratted Stamp Act came along in 1765. No, as my article in my OP briefly describes, we've had at least 400 years of "identity" politics in the political bag here in "America." I imagine that to my chagrine, there shall be more.
A reasonable idea, since we know some that seemed friendly later betrayed those Jewish neighbors in Germany, at least some accounts.It is simply untrue that "getting to know people" leads to less racial and ethnic division. Familiarity breeds contempt as surely as understanding. For instance, Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda lived together in the same neighbourhoods, yet Hutus hacked their neighbours to death in bloody genocide; or Serb and Bosniak in 1995; or Germans and the Jews in their midst prior to WWII.
What has been shown is that education diminishes racial and ethnic tension, but again depends what you are taught. If you are taught that one race is the Master, or that your land was stolen by your neighbour, inevitably that would worsen division.
It is natural for man to create an Us and Them. Even musical appreciation lines up to identity, with conservatism more likely to favour country and liberalism hip-hop and such, or ethnic musical appreciation. Often, the fact of labelling something as belonging to X, is enough to create identity differences. Studies have been done that show that even arbitrarily grouping people together for whatever reason, increases empathic response; and conversely decreases it for the outgroup individuals.
True enough. But what ideology do you think specifically drives the impetus to still refuse humanitarian, let alone equal, treatment to other folks who just happen to have different skin pigmentation or slightly different physical features?
Well, in the Germany genocide it was a master race, right wing ideology, but in the Cambodian genocide it was a left wing ideology.
As i think of it, the core problem is ideology itself -- since ideology replaces humans with abstractions about humans.
So, what's the American version of 'ideology' that you think is still the problem even today? Why can't some Christians (and even, I suppose, some non-Christians) get over their continued rejection of other people who have diverse ethnic [racial] backgrounds?
Well, that may be, brother, but IF the Bible says that God separated the races and didn't intend for them to comingle, well then, what are you going to do about that fact?
Where does the Bible say that?
From a quickee lookee see-ee at the posts today , I wonder if there has been any progress "forward" towards truth, towards God's Kingdom, at all?Another Thanksgiving has come and gone and after having visited Williamsburg, VA this past week, looking upon small masses of my fellow Americans who were, like me, out and about with family, I thought about how far our supposed 'Christianized' and even 'Enlightened' nation has come in its own racial relations.
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