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Jeff C's avatar

The great equalizer is that we are all children of God.

My statement was aimed at an observably false claim (no such thing as race) that is unicorn thinking. We don't improve things in life by wishing away reality and pretending demonstrably true facts aren't real. We accept reality and deal with it.

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Freebird's avatar

As always, great wisdom here. The key to this is to recognize the different races that God made and embrace our common humanity.

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Politico Phil's avatar

God "made" or created only one set of parents. He "made" no others. There is only one human race. We have to get these definitions straight. Just because all my children look and behave and sound differently does not mean they are all from different parents or are of different races.

Look...God created one race of people with a genetic woodpile so diverse and varied that there are ALL kinds of different looking "humans". Point is, WE ARE ALL HUMANS. And the varied combination of genetics is ONGOING. This is not a static reality that happened once. Our God-given gene pool is constantly combining to produce new and varied results that evil people want to use to divide us. This is important.

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Freebird's avatar

Phil, I would say that the development of different races from the one set of parents still supports the statement that God “created” different races, albeit through Divine Intent or will. He certainly built a diverse genetic code into those first parents, and apparently the resulting diversity was furthered by the very human characteristic of like being attracted to like. And one would guess that the differing races developed early in the history of mankind. By the time of Moses there was an Ethiopian race, from which his wife is said to have sprung.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Great rationalization but it doesn't hold up. You are mis-defining "race". Does that make them non-human or a lessor human or perhaps a superior human? Marxists and eugenicists would say yes. This was the whole basis for the willful extermination of the "Jewish race" by the "German" Nazis as...and I quote, "an inferior diseased race."

Here is the straight definition: there is only one Human Race. As it is written, so it shall be.

Your wife's background is from the Ethiopian culture which has similar cultural and genetic characteristics which I assume are different from yours. So what? Because you are both of the human race, I also assume you two have no problem breeding together. The term "race" is improperly used in your example.

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ThreeArchBay's avatar

Total hogwash, Phil.

You even get the WWII post victory jewish propaganda wrong. I bet you even believe in the "holocaust" hoax.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Enjoy your delusions.

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Fla Mom's avatar

If one believes that God guides all of history, then "All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being." John 1:3 Berean Literal

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Freebird's avatar

Great verse!

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ThreeArchBay's avatar

"God "made" or created only one set of parents."

LOL!! So who did Cain marry and have children with?

Aren't you being divisive by spouting a portion of your own mythology?

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Politico Phil's avatar

Their sisters dummy. Not hard to figure out.

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Bryan Dair's avatar

In Genesis 1, god makes man and woman at the same time. In Genisis 2 god, even though he could magically create all of the matter in the universe, ran out of materials and had to run to Lowes for a bag of topsoil from which to create a man. Then he had to steal a rib from man to use the stem cells to create a woman. Then man goes into woman a couple of times and they create two offspring. Then one of the offspring kills the other, so a third offspring magically appears. At this point, these are the only four people on the planet, supposedly. But magically the 'boys' go over the hill to the next town, wherever that came from, and found themselves some wives.

It all makes perfect sense.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Now that IS a magical reading.

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Bryan Dair's avatar

It is written.

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ThreeArchBay's avatar

Then why not recognize different "religions" (mythologies)??

Que the pompous "christians" bleating...

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Politico Phil's avatar

LOL...whoa, deflecting some? That's quite the diversion.

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ThreeArchBay's avatar

"Deflecting"... just what?

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GenEarly's avatar

"Change the Reality". We often Do This Via Wars, but Is that the Only Way???

Anyone reading my posts may think I Contradict myself, but Holding 2 Thoughts that "appear" to be Contradictary at the same time is possibly a path to a new Reality of recognizing The Many Realities on planet Earth. "How" to deal with them, other than eliminating those other Realities, is Evolutionary/Enlightment. "Ideas, not Battles, Mark the advancement of Mankind" LRH

For better or worse, We are all "married" to living or dying with each other on this planet at this time.

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CMCM's avatar

I've been reading all the previous comments (including yours) and I'm throwing in my 2 cents. Having lived, worked, and spent lots of time in various countries with various "races" in terms of skin color/melanin content, what I came to believe is that it's about the specific CULTURE each person comes from, the one to which they are exposed in their earliest, most formative years. Cultures can be unique to various countries historically, but within each country there are numerous subcultures, or "tribes" so to speak. This was certainly true in the very tribal Middle Eastern countries I worked in, countries in which your allegiance is to your own small "tribe" more than to the nation itself. I've known so many people whose melanin was very dark, yet culturally they were very much like me. I've known people as white as I am who are entirely foreign to me culturally (such as radical leftists). People unknowingly and sometimes consciously adopt a particular culture and its viewpoints. This has nothing to do with "race". A white American radical leftist could adopt a Kenyan infant from a Masai tribe and raise it to be just like any American white or black, with exposure to all the same radical values and attitudes of his adoptive parents. To paraphrase Bill Clinton's comments about the economy, "It's the culture, stupid!" Having spent so much time in foreign cultures, this is certainly the viewpoint that evolved with my personal experience. As a college teacher in a Saudi Arabian university, I had a few students who had lived in the West for long periods of time and who held many sophisticated Western views, yet.....there would be so many instances in which I clearly saw their Saudi culture dominate various things. Their birth culture and the one to which they were initially exposed took precedence. In Saudi Arabia there was a great range of "races" and degrees of skin color. Many of their attitudes were strongly influenced by the Muslim religion and rigid culture that goes along with it, and the race of the various people had nothing to do with any of this.

I think this is why I feel so irritated at the constant idiocy pushed by the left about race-race-race.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Your personal experience has given you insight that most Americans do not understand, much less actually experience. Race is such a false construct without any basis in reality. Whereas, the Marxism of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was based on "class warfare", the Marxism of today's America is based on "race warfare". It is a lie and a complete manipulation. I just get frustrated that Christians who *should* know better are just as taken in as the rest.

Anyway, thanks for your comment. Much appreciated.

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