AO2 Prejudice And Dicrimination
...colour or their race. Any Christian concerned with issues of prejudice or discrimination could refer to the set texts that I previously explained, to alert us Christians of the way God wants us to live our lives and how his word has been spread by the books of the gospels, and the teachings of the disciples. The most commonly seen and executed case of prejudice and discrimination is probably race discrimination which in itself is a growing problem in the U.K. Christians see this as one of the greatest sins in the world but I disagree because alone, there are far worse sins, but this particular sin can lead to far, far worse, as seen in the holocaust, and also seen in the Holocaust could potentially lead to genocide. But as we have seen Jesus has told us to love one another as if they were our neighbour or ourselves and to treat everyone equally as this is what the way we are in the eyes of God. Despite the many teachings from the bible explaining to us how we should be treating, and act towards everyone, and also how we should be taking good care of others as if they were our own family. The Christians in this world do sometimes still seem to be guilty of cases of prejudice and, or discrimination. Some of the following cases are outlined below. • For years and years, in South Africa the Dutch reformed church supported and backed Apartheid, this system that meant that black people were separated from the white people all of the time and treated as different, like scum. We know this from Jesus’ teachings that this is wrong and completely outlines the love for people that everyone should have, as I have loved you. • When the Europeans were moving into and inhabiting the other countries around the world, they often assassinated the native tribal people and treated and sold them as slaves. This again obviously outlines the teaching’s of treating each other as equals as we are all the same in god’s eyes and that’s all that matters to, us and to him. • The Adolf Hitler epidemic, with the Holocaust which I previously mentioned, with and the extermination of all the innocent Jews during...