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The passage from Romans 13:9 is very fitting to a subject which was addressed on national television this morning. The subject was on racism, and the speaker on the program is president of the National Urban League, Marc Morial. Listen, anytime someone approaches the media, or private sector with the agenda that racism needs to be dealt with, and addresses the issue from their perspective, the conversation is for all intensive purposes, racist in some respect. The reason I say this is that issues of racism tend to look at the subject matter from one side, and not from a neutral perspective. Until the word racism becomes a word once used in our vocabulary, there will be the tendancy toward separation. In conversation, it is segregated speechology. God created all the races in the name of diversity. I believe that. If we are to love our neighbor, then we are going to need to fight very hard against segregated speechology that we all tend to throw out of our own mouths from time to time. If God did not want us to be a diverse species, I believe He would have made us all one color with a single cultural perspective. What would be the fun in that? 13:9 The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." |
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