Along the Dividing Lines of Hostility

A school not to far from the church is having an end racism rally this next weekend.  I really don't know why, but they keep sending stuff to me.  Its not that I don't care about racism or that I am racist, I just find it interesting that schools, by whom most are attempting to free from all relgion, would ask me to come to an end racism rally.

Here are my thoughts on this issue.  Any school that teaches the merits of evolution and attempts to free itself from religion, should see the repercussions of racism via this teaching.  Race was a vital factor within the rise of evolution.  Hear me on this, I am not trying to absolve the church from any wrong doing in the manner of slavery during the 1800's.  I know that many churches in the south preached slavery from the pulpit and defended it with the biblical text (some have even gone so far as to suggest black skin as the mark by which we can identify descendants of Cain in Genesis 4.15).  However, when you look at the movements for equality and civil rights, it is impossible to distinguish them from religious movements during those times.  The civil rights movements of the 60's and 70's were championed and birthed from the pulpit (and possibly stunted and starved by social groups like the black panthers, who based their movement upon Marxist philosophy, and other religiously unaffiliated groups).

My point is this: The only equality that can ever be found, arises in our relationship with God.  Only when we view all people as created by God, can we ever begin to put aside the petty differences that we have between men.  The ACLU cannot provide equailty; neither can Legislation.  Marches and hearings can only change things, if the views behind them are equally founded.  The issue at hand is not of rules or actions, but of world-view.  

So any school that would like to end racism or any other problem for that matter; please make sure that your own teachings with in the walls help your cause, not hinder them.  

The only reason to ever view each other equally, is if we all began at the same point, in the same image, with the same purpose.  Without an equal beginning, we will never live in equal living.  Only when we we realize that we ALL were created in the image of God (Gen. 1.27); that we ALL have sinned and fall short of what we were supposed to be (Rom. 3.23); and that God desires to have relationship with ALL of us.