Civility
of an individual or a nation is an outcome of how it treats it’s weak,
women, children, seniors, the minorities and the governed. Is there a
nation on the earth, where the majority or the rulers have not oppressed
and harassed the minorities, and consistently attempt to keep them in
their place?
No faith majority, racial or other majorities can claim
a clean record. It's human and is called evil majoritarian attitudes,
religions emerged, all religions emerged to mitigate those attitudes and
build cohesive societies.... Most people get it, some don't.
There
are exceptions no doubt, where certain minorities within the group of
minorities pander to the majority (the powerful, and the rulers), and
that is part of the self-balancing acts of preservation of one’s
identity. These acts are detrimental to long term cohesiveness and peace
of the society.
The civility of a nation is determined by how it treats its weak and its minorities and the weak.
The
silence of majority contributes greatly to such evil, unless they speak
up, bad guys will continue to be evil. I am glad to see the ‘majority’
speaking up against the treatment of minorities in Ferguson that is the
only hope we have, that majority will stand up against injustice, if not
it will create more chaos and all of us will suffer.
Genuine
love is an antidote to bias, and genuine love of God removes the evil of
bias from one’s heart. If Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and
other religions do not remove the bias from you…. It’s not their
problem, it is yours.
Mike Ghouse
www.TheGhouseDiary.com
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