Explain how Christians might put their beliefs about racism into action.

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Explain how Christians might put their beliefs about racism into action

        The Roman Catholic Church does not agree with racism. In 1965 the second Vatican council made a declaration on the relation of the church to non-church religions (nostra aetate). It said:

“The church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, and discrimination against people, or any harassment of them on the basis of their race, colour, condition in life or religion.”

        After that was published, pope john Paul 11 asked the church to produce a fuller report on racism. It basically has in it that the roman catholic church is against racism and racial discrimination, how god loves everyone the same no matter what, apartheid in south Africa must be abolished and how the church wants to change racist attitudes etc.

        

I think that its obvious that the roman catholic church despises racism and wants to destroy it, but what are they really doing to fight racism? I know they have done things in the past etc but what are they doing now to help eliminate racism? They say they ‘want to change racist attitudes’, but what are they doing about it? They say ‘apartheid in South Africa must be abolished’, oops too late nelson Mandela abolished it. They need to rise above and try to help racism instead of writing reports on how they don’t agree with it.

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        Then there are Christians such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Bishop Trevor Huddleston who actually did take action to stop racism.

        

Martin Luther King Jr. used peaceful protest as a way to purge racism in South America. In the 1950’s and 60’s south America was starting to become like south Africa, discrimination against black people was common, blacks earned half of what whites earned, some public places were ‘whites only’ and black people had to give up their own luxuries for whites.

        

On the 1st December 1965, a tired black woman refused to ...

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