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Originally Posted by bishoph
Sadly, yes it still happens! Until the church takes a true stand against racism it will endure. The church has a mandate to rebuke the world of sin, but it cannot rebuke a sin which it holds dear. On any Sunday morning in America you can clearly see the racial divide of our nation.
This will not change with "token" members on either side, it must be a true love and welcome form the head all the way down manifested by having people of different ethnic backgrounds in real positions of leadership so that every race feels wanted, respected, and welcome.
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you really think something as hardcoded into our nature as dislike of that which isn't like us is going to go away because some preachers pound the pulpit over it??? Dream on, brother...
Why do you think the class of 25 kindergarteners make fun of the one kid with glasses or the one kid who's overweight or the one kid who does anything else different from the majority??? Because people are naturally prejudiced against anything that is different than they are, whether the difference be race, gender, class, sexual orientation, or anything else you could possibly come up with.... Its what people do, its how we work, its hardwired in our DNA and in our nature...
It will never go away...
What needs to happen is it needs to be minimalized to the point that extreme acts of racism such as this don't happen... You stop the dislike of others (for whatever reason) at lame kindergarden teasing, so it dosn't turn into hanging nooses from oak trees and prosecuting the black kids but not the white ones or beating some gay kid up and tying him to a fence and leaving him to die...