01-11-2017, 10:37 AM
(01-11-2017, 06:50 AM)Bronsin Wrote:(01-11-2017, 12:10 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(01-10-2017, 10:38 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-10-2017, 05:59 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: A warning to him: Genesis 1:27 suggests that God is BLACK. If He made Man in His Image, then because the first human beings were black, God must be black.
Why would this make a difference?
I expect the death penalty to be rushed with Donald Trump and his merry band of sadists in charge of the judiciary.
Nothing like jumping to conclusions is there? Is there any wonder why the Right is so entrenched in opposition the everything the left has to say when they make completely outlandish claims such as this? And you think there is a solution to be had in mutual agreement LMMFAO. It will never happen.
Put two and two together...
Not that I am a particularly religious person, I know enough about the Bible to put a few things together. Should the ethnicity or religious identity of God be a concern to anyone? Sure -- if that person did horrible things to people. Dylan Roof did horrible things to perfectly-good black people... in a church, of all places. In a prayer meeting.
I have met people like those fine black Christian people in a religious setting... except that they are not black. If someone down on his luck went to a prayer meeting in desperate need for help on an addiction or other destructive behavior, then they would find support that begins with prayer. I can imagine what those fine Christian people would have done with a racist white kid -- trying to deliver him from behavior and beliefs that they thought was destroying him.
I try to imagine myself as one of the participants in the prayer meeting. Imagining myself as black would be the easy part. Character does not come from melanin or its scarcity. I would try to allay his fears about black people and show him that my colleagues mean well. So he comes from a different culture? Fine. Nobody needs to 'get' the traditions of black Americans to be good. But there are white people with much the same principles, and that makes people good.
Dylann Roof is a bigot, but most bigots don't resort to violence of the horrific manner that he did. He needed help. He went to the wrong place for that help. I wonder whether he was beginning to break -- and in defense of all that he cherished, he lashed out at those helping him? Those fine black people had a right answer for him -- give up the racism, give up the meanness, and clean up his personal life. Could he accept that answer? Of course not.
The tragedy isn't that he dies for it. He could have taken himself out instead, and the world would be a better place for his absence. The tragedy is that good people had to die first. You saw my benign fantasy; it would not be news. Maybe something like that has happened; it never makes the headlines. We all know how the news is: "If it bleeds it leads".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.