Listen to this again:
Colorblindness has nothing to do with eradicating racism. It is about denying its existence and power.
That is the truth. We are all racists. We’re hardwired to like people who are similar to us, and we’re hardwired to be a little afraid of people who are different from us. It’s part of our makeup. The thing is, though, that we don’t have to let this be all we are. We can choose something better. Believe me: it is a choice. It’s not an easy choice. It’s not a choice we manage to make 100% of the time. But we can choose — we must choose! — to extend respect and dignity to all human beings.
Amputees, Guessing Games & How to Win an Argument
Love Wins.
It shouldn’t be controversial to start a blog post with that phrase.
But somehow over the past few months, that phrase has become one of the most popular catalysts for controversy among groups of Christians on the Internet.
For those that are unaware, a popular yet controversial Christian author, Rob Bell, wrote a book recently called “Love Wins”. In true internet form, before the book was even released, and before anyone had read the contents of said book, a handful of other well known Christian authors and leaders starting disowning this man as even a Christian. They had determined, that because what it seemed he might say in his new book disagreed with what they decided they believed, that he was no longer in the ‘in’ club.
This became one of the top trending topics in the world on twitter for a short time. In fact, it got to the point that other people began to hear about the controversy and wanted to know why all these Christians were bickering so badly, calling each other names and attacking each other.
Having grown up in ‘the church’ and been in Christian circles my whole life, I have been in several situations before where Christians from one group or denomination will refuse to accept that other Christians from another denomination are even Christians.
I’ve heard people make flippant statements like
Catholics aren’t christians, this church or that church is a cult or that this person or that persons a heretic, so and so is a backslider. Why? Well, because I disagree with them.
And so the truth is this; Christians aren’t always know for their unity. So I am going to ask a difficult question about Christianity.
Why are we so divided?
Why is it, that even within ” christianity” we can’t all get along?
