Christians would say that it is their duty to eradicate prejudice and discrimination from our society. Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons to support your answer showing that you have considered more than one viewpoint.

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GCSE Religious Education: Paper 2B

Prejudice and Discrimination Coursework

Christians would say that it is their duty to eradicate prejudice and discrimination from our society. Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons to support your answer showing that you have considered more than one viewpoint.

        Christian teaching like the Bible and catechism are against prejudice and discrimination, some may even claim it to be our duty. Unfortunately in theory it is a lot harder for prejudice to be eradicated then discrimination, because prejudice is an attitude and cannot be controlled by laws like discrimination. Although most Christians understand and follow bible teaching some organisations misinterpret passage to back up their own actions an example of such a group would be the Ku Klux Klan. They are a discriminatory group of white Christians who use the bible to back up extreme racism. Thankfully there are laws to remove discrimination but laws cannot govern ideas and attitudes this is why it is harder to fight prejudices.

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        Many Christians have tried to exclude discrimination from our society, people like Martin Luther King, Trevor Huddleson, Desmond Tutu and many other unsung heroes working in local environments.

In the Southern states of America in the 1950s and 1960s discrimination and prejudice against black people was very common. Many blacks did not have the right to vote and certain public places were said to be for "whites only" Martin Luther King was a Christian who campaigned endlessly for equal treatment of blacks and whites. He refused to support the idea that white people were all evil, as some ...

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