Multiple ]religions, such as Christianity, promote the belief that light (by extension white skin) is associated with goodness while darkness (by extension black skin) is associated with evil. We even see this employed with the use of wedding dresses for women, where a white dress is to signal the purity of the bride as she is handed off by her father to her husband.On some subconscious level this religious reinforcement must impact the way people view the world and others of different races. For example, being more hesitant around someone of darker skin tone or being more hyper vigilant to look for bad character traits from them.
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Would there be less discrimination against black people if religion did not associate light with good an darkness with evil?
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good challenge thought. Like to see a list of discrimination occurring from your viewpoint.
Maybe for some people.
I don't think this is low hanging fruit. The changes to reduce discrimination would be in the culture. Want that, I'll share it. It isn't in changing everyone else... because you can't.
note some things are not religious. huge population of chinese... mostly not religious in nyc... and they are displacing "blacks". good luck being black and getting a job there, I can see it's hard for these people and feel for them. They are being left out, at least somewhat. It must be painful...
true story, I was in line at the big box store in midwest, last year, and glanced behind me and this man was just beaming with spiritual energy... I was taken aback. I decided to complement him about that and we got to chatting, we made a connection, I ended up offering him for free what he was buying, as I'd just thrown in the trash the exact appliance cord he was buying. What's the odds of that happening? He was a black if people want to see him that way, but that light coming out of him was of Christ, he was Christian... that was obvious before I asked. It wasn't white or black, it just was. that's the light the Bible talking about.
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This is obviously misplaced Silliness. You are suggesting that all religious people are Racists. Your issues are with “white people” which includes China, Koreas, Russia, European, Americans, and others scattered all over the 🌎 🌍 🌏. And all the other non-white Beings who have Saving Faith Alone In Christ Jesus Alone. —Obviously, you are insecure in your Person. One can only guess that you may have not achieved as you expected and are seeking a target 🎯 in which to blame.
-Read the Bible so that you understand context in which
That doesn't explain why in the UK black cats have been viewed as being good luck for a long time & white cats were symbols of evil or impending death. There are many folklores, legends, etc. that go against white is good, black is evil ideology in the world. . This white is good, black is evil concept is solely an American concept. Not Biblical. A lot of people could blame the Jim Crow laws but it actually originated with the overly suspicious Pilgrims - who didn't even like Christians of other dominations.
Seriously if it was Biblical Europeans and Americans should view the below, the same.
In Europe skin complexion doesn't really matter compared to where someone is from, their ancestry, culture, beliefs, etc. . In America skin complexion means far, far more than where someone is from, their ancestry, culture, beliefs, etc.
@Lookingforthetruth - never mind your concept doesn't explain why black "evil" people are murdering each other or why white "good" people are murdering each other.
This is one of the best questions I've ever read here. Our use of light is used metaphorically to describe a transcendental awakening. (Good). The darkness is defined as an absence of light, ( Bad). It's a terrible irony that light, and dark are defined as antonyms of each other.
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No, the association of darkness with fear and danger is not related to religion. It is the natural fear of the dark of night, where predatory animals and murderers lurked, that causes the association you speak of, and it predates religious creed.
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