Pope John XX111 postulated the thesis, "PACEM IN TERRIS". Simply put, "If you want peace. sow justice". My question is is the church living up to its roles and obligations today?". People like late Rev. Fr.Chukwulozie tried during their lifetime to promote inter - religious dialogue especially Muslim - Christian dialogue. I admonish the church to look into matters of gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms that are brought before her. Muslims and Christians are a family. Christians should not judge muslims as people who kill for Allah to make heaven. I was disappointed internally when one of my lecturers last year incited the class against muslims by teaching us that muslims kill in order to make heaven for Allah. I will never forgive him for wrong and hateful teaching. Lets reason together now to make peace reign in Jesus name. Amen.
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This is necessarily going to be speculative. The roots of the problem probably predate organized religion and may be sought in our evolutionary past. For millions of years, our antecedents traveled about in small groups of 20-30 individuals. (Based on comparison with contemporary hunters and gatherers.) Members of the group knew each other and were interrelated. Outsiders probably ranged from mysterious to threatening. That which was different, was avoided or even repelled, though, on occasion and for genetic reasons, there had to be out-marriage.
Currently, there is a great deal of psychological research that supports the tendency of people to beware of and even disparage differences. Happily, there are millions who do not suffer this ethnic and religious myopia, but the problem arise with the other millions. Seems your lecturer was a part of the second group. Learning not to judge whole categories is something that comes with education and maturity. We have to learn to judge people as individuals.
Hello Raybeck, thanks for your answer. Will respond much much later.
The psychological research that supports the tendency of people to beware of and even disparage differences is misleading and erroneous. I am happy to note that you wrote that a lot suffer from this ethnic and religious myopia. The sooner we learn to judge people as individuals , the better for us. Majority of the people judge whole categories because they are uneducated and immature.
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