Posted on 09/07/2017 5:19:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
For today’s radical Left, which now has virtually uncontested control of the Democratic Party, racism is the universal and unforgiveable sin. It is also considered a sin that so permeates society that it is ineradicable except by a societal revolution -- one that completely rearranges what is deemed an inherently oppressive hierarchy continually contaminated by microaggressions passed down from tyrannical generation to generation.
It’s well to recall that every age has had a version of a universal and unforgiveable sin, a mark of Cain signifying an ineradicable stain condemning the offending race, ethnicity or class to perpetual ostracization from the rest of society.
For the thirteenth-century poet Dante, the worst sin was betrayal. Betrayers who like the biblical Cain betrayed and slew those closest to them, were consigned to the Ninth Circle of Hell, where they were eternally frozen in ice up to their necks. Julius Caesar’s assassin Brutus lived in that circle, remorsefully and eternally -- yet ineffectively -- shedding tears of ice.
J. Robert Nash notes that for many living in England’s Victorian era, “The morality of the family, no matter what the class, was passionately clung to. To abandon the abiding concept of marriage and the family was to commit the unforgivable sin, the unpardonable betrayal.” Those who broke the code were consigned to the status of outcasts, made eternal wanderers like Cain.
In modern times, the inequities of wealth and the classes seen as wrongfully possessing too much occupied the minds of communists, who sought to rearrange social hierarchy by redistribution of goods and status.
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Racism is a sin. However the word has now been miss-used and weaponized, to try to destroy anyone who believes that all races should be treated equally.
There is only one race, and that is the Human Race
In some respects, "racism" is no more of a choice than the weather is a choice.
https://theecclesialcalvinist.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/critical-theory-and-the-unity-of-the-church/
I just linked that in another thread but it seems appropriate here, too.
Define “racism”.
I think “behavioral characteristics”, and “success of outcome”, is more a factor of culture than race.
You make a very good point. Over the decades I've worked with and been friends with many true Africans—educated, Christian, articulate folks from Africa. They had nothing in common with their American "cousins". In fact they looked with contempt upon most (but not all) American "Africans".
Their opinion was not founded on race, but on a generalized debased culture which is evident in the African-American community.
It should go without saying that the ghetto thugs do not represent all African-Americans, any more than Justin Bieber or Madonna represents all white people.
If there were an ineradicable sin (aside from pointedly rejecting the Holy Spirit), it’s the act of following a liberal ideology.
I’d put racism, or more generally, bigotry, below murder, rape, and robbery? When are we going to fight to eradicate that?
According to Jesus, the worst sin was not obeying the first commandment (actually, he said first was most important).
The science of genetics shows you are correct. However, progressives will continue to denounce people they don't like as "racists" in order to distract and alienate people while creating an air of crisis. As Thomas Sowell, a human of African decent from Gastonia NC once wrote, "Liberalism requires a crisis" in order to get people to abandon their own best interest and their rights. Or as a leftist once said publicly, "Never let a crisis go to waste."
That is part of the problem. There is no universally accepted definition. It is many/most times defined by those throwing out the accusation. Not to mention it is almost universally used against whites.
That's the old definition. The new definition is "anything said or done by a white person that offends the sensibilities of a dark-skinned person."
Under the old definition you could like people of other races and still be a racist, and contrariwise you could hate people of other races and not be a racist.
‘If there were an ineradicable sin (aside from pointedly rejecting the Holy Spirit)’
just curious; why would skepticism regarding something which has not been proven to exist (and cannot ever be proven to exist) be an ‘ineradicable sin’...?
John Newton was an antisocial drumkard. He was kick out of the British Navy. He began work on a slave ship, however he was so hated by the crew, the captain sold him to a west African slave trader who gave him to his wife. She mistreated him as she did all of her slaves.
Newton was later rescued. His ship almost sunk on the journey. When he returned to England he once again joined the slave trade, However God had been working on him for years.
Newton began to see the error of his ways. After he had a stroke he had an awakening. He became a strict abolitionist and Christian minister. He led the charge and witnessed the signing of the abolition act of 1807.
During his time as a minister, Newton realized he had been a terrible person. The worst of the worst. He traded humans for money.
One day he wrote a little hymn to describe his life and conversion. The hymn is still sung today. It’s titled “ Amazing Grace”.
Hatred is a sin, but no sin can overcome the grace of God.
God is the key.
The left essentially thinks there is no God. Thus talk of sin from the left is ridiculous. If there is nothing but nature, there is really nothing but remorseless brutality.
It’s your call whether you want to be skeptical. If you don’t believe in the Creator and the afterlife, then the whole matter is rather immaterial to you, no?
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