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Originally Posted by redeemedcynic84
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...
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I believe that the new creature can be free of this. But somewhere there is an operational link missing between the receiving of the Holy Ghost and the application of the power that comes with it. Because of this we have people filled with enough power to become a brand new creature or decades and yet nothing changes but their clothing and hairstyle.
Let me be sure and agree with you, though, that pounding the pulpit doesn't change anyones nature.