Food for thought. I can't help but feel this pandemic is giving people a new reason for division and exclusion.
Black and white
Straight and not straight
Now, unvaccinated and vaccinated.
How many more reasons do we need to divide people?
Someone did something wrong. A celebrity or someone ordinary. People take videos and post them on social media, taking pride in their actions that cause the world to ridicule the subject. Watching as netizens throw hurtful words one after the other. Judging as if they themselves haven't sinned.
Ridiculing them. Categorizing them. Excluding them because they did something not nice or just because they're different.
Throwing insults and hurtful words.
Demeaning them.
Hitting them with rocks, metaphorically or not just because we could.
When Jesus didn't even throw a rock at the woman who was caught in the act of adultery.
The Bible tells us about it.
[i][quote]When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ---John 8:7[/quote][/i]
I know how easy it is to judge. To ridicule.
But just because we could doesn't mean we should.
If we are in their shoes, how would we want to be treated?
Food for thought.
Straight and not straight
Now, unvaccinated and vaccinated.
How many more reasons do we need to divide people?
Someone did something wrong. A celebrity or someone ordinary. People take videos and post them on social media, taking pride in their actions that cause the world to ridicule the subject. Watching as netizens throw hurtful words one after the other. Judging as if they themselves haven't sinned.
Ridiculing them. Categorizing them. Excluding them because they did something not nice or just because they're different.
Throwing insults and hurtful words.
Demeaning them.
Hitting them with rocks, metaphorically or not just because we could.
When Jesus didn't even throw a rock at the woman who was caught in the act of adultery.
The Bible tells us about it.
[i][quote]When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ---John 8:7[/quote][/i]
I know how easy it is to judge. To ridicule.
But just because we could doesn't mean we should.
If we are in their shoes, how would we want to be treated?
Food for thought.
