A good example of what Christians should be like and an example that should be followed is the story of the Good Samaritan. Luke 10: 25-37. This parable sums up the way Christians and all people should treat each other, loving their neighbour as they would like to be loved. The parable also gives us an insight in to the fact that sometimes we have to break traditions in order to live up to Jesus’ teaching. Because the Samaritan, traditionally, shouldn’t help the man as the two of them are separated by old prejudices. Just as Jesus broke traditions with the Jews that outraged the elders who were working on tradition and old prejudices.
Jesus wants us to help the people who we see that need help regardless of how we view them, so we must learn to not discriminate against people so then we can just help them, and not judge them either.
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Explain how Christians would support victims of prejudice and discrimination in society. You may wish to illustrate you answer briefly referring to one or two examples of discrimination.
Christians would support victims of prejudice and discrimination in society chiefly by the many different groups there are for prejudice and discrimination. Organisations such as Amnesty International, the St. Vincent de Paul society, and the justice for peace groups do work and help people who have problems like these.
The following passage is taken from Amnesty Internationals mission statement:
- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
In pursuit of this vision, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
Racism is a prime discrimination that is common, cruel and all around us. There are loads of organizations Christian and even non-Christian to combat this. Organizations such as connextions and youth related organizations one of their main aims is to discourage and prevent racism.
Discrimination is helped a lot by parishs who swt up little organizations in their locaql area involving maybe the parish priest and a few others to help hold classes or meetings where victims of any form of discrimination can go and just speak and alk about there experiences.
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“Discrimination is the greatest evil in the world today” Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer showing that you have thought bout more than one point of view.
I do agree that discrimination is the greatest evil in the word today. I think this because I believe that any sin, as long as it was deliberate, is as great as all of the others.
Even if you thought that discrimination wasn’t that bad as a sin all you have to look at are the various examples of where discrimination has meant pure evil, for instance the holocaust in Germany under the Nazi regime, and the genocide in Rwanda where 1.000,000 Rwandans were killed in a month. They are examples of discrimination and so discrimination should be taken as the greatest evil in the world today.
Discrimination can also be evil because it encompasses so many things about how we judge people it is very hard to never discriminate in some ways so everyone during their life time has discriminated at one point. The horrible thing about discrimination in our society, especially racism is its all around us. Around the school environment racism can be commonplace and the victims may not take it to heart, however that doesn’t matter because even if it is meant as a joke it shows that the racist people have the capabilities to be racist and mean it in a situation. That is why it is so evil because anyone can pick it up at any age and use it.
Discrimination is also breaking the number one commandment of Jesus’ teaching which is “love one another as yourself” if you are discriminating a peoples you are not loving your neighbour, who is everyone – this is breaking the greatest commandment. It breaks the commandment in such a way as murder or rape do, which is why I believe people who think it isn’t the greatest evil of all should agree with me.
