{"id":7128,"date":"2014-06-15T01:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allandouglas.dougbittinger.com\/blog\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"PREJUDICE"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Calvin<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prejudice is a strange and powerful aspect of human ignorance.\u00a0 It has thousands of cunning ways to create unbelievable barriers.\u00a0 It thrives on the lack of information.\u00a0 It grows in the midst of suspicion and innuendoes.\u00a0 Prejudice does not need facts to give impetus to its horrid influence.\u00a0 It is propelled by the false winds of irresponsible conversation.\u00a0 It holds us in the grip of\u00a0 an unbending legalism.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is mostly out of fear that we suspect those who are not our kind.\u00a0 We do not wait for truth when we want to believe the worst about those whom we dislike.\u00a0 Prejudice keeps us in the dark even when\u00a0the light of other people’s opinions are before us.\u00a0 It is difficult for us to see beyond the color of skin, language barriers and any number of objectionable characteristics.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Truth that comes in an unfamiliar package is unacceptable.\u00a0 Like Pharisees of old we cannot accept a Messiah who is different.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even though we wish it were not so, we are all quite gullible to the Satanic devices of prejudice.\u00a0\u00a0We are forever looking for those folk toward whom we can feel superior.\u00a0 We cling tenaciously to those ideas and customs which give us security of thought and keep our traditions intact.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0People and ideas which challenge us to think “outside the box” are found to be objectionable.\u00a0 We simply cannot tolerate that which is different.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Religion is a most vulnerable prey of prejudice.\u00a0 Jesus found it that way in His day and strongly rebuked the religious leaders for their narrow opinions.\u00a0 He sought to redeem His people from established habit and give them the truth which would make them free.\u00a0 The mind of Christ is our only hope against the power of prejudice.\u00a0 His gospel is good news to everyone who is victimized by an unbending disposition.\u00a0 His grace can paralyze our prejudice.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     Prejudice is a strange and powerful aspect of human ignorance.  It has thousands of cunning ways to create unbelievable barriers.  It thrives on the lack of information.  It grows in the midst of suspicion and innuendoes.  Prejudice does not need facts to give impetus to its horrid influence.  It is propelled by the false … Continue reading “PREJUDICE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-of-faith","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19163,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions\/19163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}