Christian Teachings About Discrimination and Prejudice

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Christian Teachings About Discrimination and Prejudice

Prejudice is the act of prejudging someone or something, and usually

implies judging another person to be of less worth or value, based on

little or no actual knowledge of them. Discrimination is when people

are treated badly by others because of prejudice. An example of

prejudging is an employer saying, “He won’t do his job well because he

is black”, and an example of discrimination is when an employer says,

“I won’t employ him because he is black”. In Britain today racial

discrimination is against the law but prejudicing is not because an

attitude cannot be made illegal. Prejudice can be about many different

things: religion, race, colour, sex, sexuality, language, disability

and age. All prejudice and discrimination goes against the first two

Articles of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights: article 1:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They

are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one

another in a spirit of brotherhood. Article 2: Everyone is entitled to

all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without

distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language,

religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,

property, birth or other status

Christianity teaches that everyone is equal in the eyes of God and so

it would be wrong to make anyone feel inferior or suffer because of

any difference between them. An example that this is what Christians

believe is “You shall love your neighbour as yourself”, Matthew 29v13.

This bible reference shows me that the bible teaches Christians to

love everyone, and no where in the bible does it say that Christians

should discriminate or prejudice. The Christian church is against

prejudice and discrimination in all forms. This is based on the belief

that all people are created equally by God and so all people are equal

in the sight of God. "From one human being he created all the races on

Earth and made them live throughout the whole Earth.

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