What is a person?
What is a human?The answer to that question is continually expanding.
Different races were seen as somehow less than human;
Indeed, anyone who was different.The Elephant Man was seen as somehow sub-human.
He could be ridiculed, abused, placed on display at carnivals.People who were born without all the "right" proportions,
Again, somehow less than human.Left-handed people, treated as objects of suspicion,
Considered as "sinister."
They offer "left-handed compliments."An unborn child,
Called a "parasitic lump of cells,"
A "non-person."We can see the development of an expanding awareness,
Of a more and more inclusive definition of humanity,
In the eyes of the world,
Coming to view people less and less with superstition.
This development comes from God,
Directing His Church to bring Gospel-Light to the world,
To ALL humanity.
p.s. - Don't trust Righty.