(September 15, 2015)
It is
impossible to read the scriptures without becoming aware of the racial
components that exists within its pages.
Some people read this, and it becomes their motivation to turn away from
the Church. Others read it, and it
becomes their motivation to hold to the belief that there is some truth to the
idea of racial differences that are meaningful.
Still others read it, and it becomes a reminder to them that even
prophets and apostles are human beings trapped in their own time and subject to
prejudices which they remain unaware of (which they claim to would or would not
have escaped from, depending on the charity of the one espousing this
position).
Frankly,
though, this seems to me to be a bit of a waste. After all, we are so rarely told why. Far more often we are told what, and it takes
all of our capacity to live up to that charge.
Today we are told to treat everyone as the children of God that they
are, so what does it matter what people in centuries or millennia past were
told? It is either a weapon against the
Church or against others, but it still draws no one closer to God by examining
it.
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