Gut: Where is the love?
Spill: One thing I would like to change about the world is prejudice. Whether it be because of background, race, or status, people are judged and viewed in a particular way based on their physical, material being. One can claim to love everyone, but only God can love everyone. What difference should it make if someone who grew up in the 'burbs is best friends with someone who grew up in a ghetto or if an Irish guy dates a black woman or if a millionaire marries a person who lived in a trailer park their entire life? Putting up these barriers between each other only puts up barriers between us and God. I think the Gospels try to explain that God sees hearts, and if someone's heart is right, then nothing about them is wrong. "To discriminate only generates hate, and when you hate then you're bound to get irate."
I am in total agreement with you. It would be ideal, almost utopic, to inhabit a world of no prejudice inclinations--a world where no one is subject to the slurs and negative stigmas of others. This is a grave undertaking, however. In summation (this a paraphrase of a simple yet pertinent statement), as long as there exist individuals with differences, hatred (prejudice) will also be present. Nonetheless, the effort should be embraced. Maybe, a more pragmatic approach would be to do as insisted in class, and that is to provoke societal reform by first changing ourselves (ridding of the existing prejudices/walls within us.)
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