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Originally Posted by Jim H
Pretty sure there won't be any racists making it on that day! But I think I know what you mean, Cindy. The true church has no racism in it, and we'll all be free from it on that day.
I've always been so amazed at how so many christians - even folks in our circles - hold onto racist sentiments and attitudes. It's sickening!
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? ~ 1 John 4.20 |
I think there will be former racist in heaven...racism isn't just born out of hatred it is born from ignorance and sometimes bad experiences.
To the boy who was bussed to a white school, had crosses burned in his yard, beat up, and was repeatedly referred to in derogatory terms all by people he called white...that's not going to go away overnight.
The poor white kid that lives in the ghetto and is treated as a second class citizen because of his skin color learn to associate that with a race of people.
The kid who is raised on a farm and told all his life that other races are ignorant or stupid has a form of racism that even time and education doesn't always wipe away.
The young black man that is raised by a grandfather that has learned to hate whites because of the way he was treated invests that hatred into his grandson, and no matter how much we educate people in these positions their is always a residual amount of those beliefs left.
Look at the way people react when they are angry or drunk in relation to race, things they would never say otherwise come spewing out.
Racism isn't simple and the truth is no matter how much we deny it many Americans still struggle with racism.
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