Thursday, August 2, 2012

Let's define some basics

Let's define some basics.

The below is discrimination (not an exhaustive list): 
  • Women in the middle east (predominantly there, but elsewhere in the world as well): no voting rights, can't drive, have to walk behind their husbands, can't show their skin, can't determine who they can marry. This should not be and we all should grieve this, especially Christians.
  • Unborn children: may or may not make it out of the womb with their life. This is 1 in 4 babies in the US, more like 1 in 2.5 in other parts of the world. This should not be and we all should grieve this, especially Christians.
  • Africans during the 18th and 19th century: rounded up like cattle and hauled across the ocean and treated worse than any animal.  Praise God that this is a thing of the past. 
  • Human trafficking: right in our very city, children (for the most part) are being kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery. This should not be and we all should grieve this, especially Christians.
  • Homosexuals in middle eastern countries with predominantly Islamic influence: killed, imprisoned, tortured for their sexual choices. This should not be and we all should grieve this, especially Christians. 
  • Christians in non-Christian parts of the world: dying for beliefs they live by.  This should not be and we all should grieve this, especially Christians.
  • "Grieve this": take action in whatever manner you can to fight it - give money to causes fighting these grievances, join those causes vocationally,  pray for rescue and justice.
The below is not:
  •  Me and my Neighbor (heterosexual and homosexual): stand for any belief we want to. Eat, drive, and shop wherever we want to, wear whatever we want to, own our own business or work any job we want to (within reason), get health insurance (but not for our boyfriend or girlfriend) (assuming this is part of your compensation package or you can afford to buy your own), shack up with whoever we want to, drink and smoke whatever we want to (for the most part), follow whatever religion or lack thereof that we want to, have however many kids we want to (for the most part), boycott and protest who/whatever we want to. And none of this will get us thrown in jail or killed.