Jesus Christ had similar teachings to this and taught that we ‘love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.’
Which shows that we should take Jesus’ example and maintain a caring and polite attitude to the general human race despite his or her ethnic background, skin color, race, religion or any other factor as Jesus accepted everyone.
He showed this by his actions such as healing the servant of a Roman Centurion, and the daughter of Syro-Phoenician woman and engaging in a conversation with a Samaritan woman that was treated as an outcast even to her own villagers. Also in his last instructions to the disciples in Mathew 28 was telling them to baptize people everywhere.
However, there have been cases where Christians do appear to be guilty of prejudice and discrimination such as in South Africa the Dutch Reformed Church supported apartheid, in which black people were separated from white people and treated as inferior.
Also when Europeans were colonising other countries around the world such as Africa, India, and North America etc. they often killed the native people of the place or made some slaves. In many cases they forced them to abandon their beliefs and convert to Christianity. This was against all the teachings of Jesus.
Many people also think that the Christian Church is sexist and does not treat men and women equally. As Paul quotes that:
‘Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to enquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.’
Roman Catholics believe no one should look down on anybody else because of their status in life and all should be treated equally. As in the Bible in Acts10: 34 it states:
‘I now understand that God has no favourites, but that anybody of any nationality who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him’
Also Jesus told of the story of ‘the Good Samaritan’ is when a Jew is hurt by thieves and left to die, and is passed by fellow Jews such a priest which ignore him but finally a Samaritan (which was the enemy of the Jews) sees him and nurses back to health. This story shows that we should take the example of the Good Samaritan and treat everyone with respect whether they are our friends or enemies.
So in all Catholics, Protestants and all Christians alike must recognize that we are all children of one Father, and there should be no distinction between Jews and Gentiles, slaves and free men, men and women, there is no distinction either between black and white, as shown by the examples in the Bible. But sometimes things do not happen like this and even the most religious of people suffer from racism.