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How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 4:58 pm
While people are claiming our society is more diverse than ever before it really seems more homogenous, less equal than how it once was.
The truth is, in the olden days people lived with their own kind. Blacks with blacks, asians with asians, and whites with whites.
Even among white people this was more stratified. Italians, Jews, Poles and Irish all lived with each other. Im a little iffy and "up in the air" on how white those groups even are. I suppose the Irish are and have been for step past 60 years or so. The others...well Italian is really more of a hispanic if you think about it..... Never mind.
I just people sometimes don't take others feelings into account.
Whether you like it or not, America is a Christian nation. I don't like the fact it is, but it is all the same. The founders were Christians of a sort, or at least had Christian backgrounds.
All senators, generals and Supreme Court Justices are Christians.
I think the other religions (and non religions) should be able to live here so long as they don't cause any mischief or threaten the order of Christian America.
If there were just some pass system or marker, so that the non Christians could be ID'd. not persecuted..Just known.
Idk... a lettering system maybe? No uniforms only a lettering system.
Im thinking "J" for Jewish, "I" For Islamic, "M" for Mormon and finally"RC" for Roman Catholic. And so it goes.
As near as I can tell they are already guests in a culture not their own. They stand out demographically and maybe should be made to stick out so they are reminded of just where they live.
Though many folks here are Atheist, you are Christian in the sense you were likely raised that way or it is your culture. I am certain you celebrate Christmas and easter if not a little bit.
Please let me know, or if the moniker of "Atheist Christian" makes any sense
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:02 pm
Lol..
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:03 pm
(September 14, 2017 at 4:58 pm)Europa! Wrote: While people are claiming our society is more diverse than ever before it really seems more homogenous, less equal than how it once was.
The truth is, in the olden days people lived with their own kind. Blacks with blacks, asians with asians, and whites with whites.
Even among white people this was more stratified. Italians, Jews, Poles and Irish all lived with each other. Im a little iffy and "up in the air" on how white those groups even are. I suppose the Irish are and have been for step past 60 years or so. The others...well Italian is really more of a hispanic if you think about it..... Never mind.
I just people sometimes don't take others feelings into account.
Whether you like it or not, America is a Christian nation. I don't like the fact it is, but it is all the same. The founders were Christians of a sort, or at least had Christian backgrounds.
All senators, generals and Supreme Court Justices are Christians.
I think the other religions (and non religions) should be able to live here so long as they don't cause any mischief or threaten the order of Christian America.
If there were just some pass system or marker, so that the non Christians could be ID'd. not persecuted..Just known.
Idk... a lettering system maybe? No uniforms only a lettering system.
Im thinking "J" for Jewish, "I" For Islamic, "M" for Mormon and finally"RC" for Roman Catholic. And so it goes.
As near as I can tell they are already guests in a culture not their own. They stand out demographically and maybe should be made to stick out so they are reminded of just where they live.
Though many folks here are Atheist, you are Christian in the sense you were likely raised that way or it is your culture. I am certain you celebrate Christmas and easter if not a little bit.
Please let me know, or if the moniker of "Atheist Christian" makes any sense
I'd be more rightly described as pagan, since that's the background I originally came from, and celebrating Christmas and Easter comes from far earlier pagan festivals.
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:09 pm
Yippie! Lets all be Sneetches!
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:14 pm
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:18 pm
Can a society truly be called diverse without a few Nazis frolicking about? Think about it!
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:22 pm
With all of the different sects of christianity (some inferior, ask the christians here), I think you're going to need a more complex identification system.
How about if all of the B's just self identify and get their mark. That would be much easier. Or maybe they could just wear a special hat.
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:29 pm
Just think of it.
Say your some honest, God fearing Christian woman in a real American town like somewhere in North Dakota or Georgia.
If there were a Roman Catholic or Mormon around wouldn't you want everyone in the town to know of them before you let them get into your inner circle?
It might be sort of "backward" by our standards but the point is we have to respect the rights, traditions and perspectives of others
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:31 pm
(September 14, 2017 at 5:29 pm)Europa! Wrote: Just think of it.
Say your some honest, God fearing Christian woman in a real American town like somewhere in North Dakota or Georgia.
If there were a Roman Catholic or Mormon around wouldn't you want everyone in the town to know of them before you let them get into your inner circle?
It might be sort of "backward" by our standards but the point is we have to respect the rights, traditions and perspectives of others
What "inner circle"? Can you define yours?
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RE: How to really celebrate diversity?
September 14, 2017 at 5:39 pm
(September 14, 2017 at 5:29 pm)Europa! Wrote: Just think of it.
Say your some honest, God fearing Christian woman in a real American town like somewhere in North Dakota or Georgia.
If there were a Roman Catholic or Mormon around wouldn't you want everyone in the town to know of them before you let them get into your inner circle?
It might be sort of "backward" by our standards but the point is we have to respect the rights, traditions and perspectives of others
You know, it hasn't been so many years since I was a white God fearing Christian woman living in Georgia. In my inner circle we had a black Muslim, two Hindu immigrants, and a Jewish girl. It's cool how normal people can be friends with someone who is different from them. Even white Christians. Also, America is not a Christian nation. Also, you're a troll.
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