Rioting: Jesus & The Money Changers
The story of Jesus and the money changers has routinely been used as a means to justify violence. Such applications are a misuse of the text.
A Conversation Guide To Racial Reconciliation In America
We can no longer be passive in our treatment of equality and racism in America. Their reality is before us daily. Regardless of where you live, who you are, or where you work, you will be brought face to face with this struggle and ongoing dialog in one form or another. It is your duty to handle these issues, charitably with love and respect lest you facilitate the burning of our known world. Put your pride and preconceived notions of race and racism to death and allow them to be born again with a fresh perspective. We can not afford any lackluster participants on this road. For better or worse, all of society must participate, as we all participate in the economy or traffic laws. Even if you try to avoid it, your avoidance itself will be recognized as a form of participation. Avoidance, contrary to popular belief, is far from being neutral, as it serves to bring about only negative outcomes. Refusing to move while an avalanche is rushing towards you does not mean it will not hit you, but rather it ensures that it will hit you and bring you down in the process. Likewise, a lackluster or neutral approach to the tension in America will only bring about adverse outcomes both in your personal and public life. Chaos, disorder, and suffering are the rules, while peace, love, and order are the exceptions. As exceptions, to the rules, they require active participation to bring them into actuality. They are not principles entirely natural to humanity. Thus if you wish to bring peace to the areas of racial tension and inequality, you must actively pursue them. The road ahead is long and fraught with many treacherous pitfalls. Nevertheless, we all must persist in the incremental pursuit of justice, love, and peace, for the sake of ourselves and future generations.
The Pursuit of Justice Above All Else: A Warning To Cancel Culture
We are coming closer, every day, to a society that places the rectification of injustice above all other goods. We now value fixing other people and giving them their just deserts, over fixing ourselves and healing the iniquity within our hearts. We overlook all other moral goods and set upon a pedestal out of our vanity that good, which is among the most easily corruptible. In seeking justice, we have become tyrants. We are applying an iron fist where other virtues could have been better suited.
The Sour Taste of Modern Activism
It's a bitter tragedy that nearly everyone brought up in and around my generation grew up with an appalling weakness, our education. We were fed the postmodern ideas that have led us to abandon truth as a concept, discourse as a means to resolution, and morality as a standard outside ourselves.
How To Change Society: First, remove the beam out of your own eye.
Generally, people attempt a top-down reformation od society whereas I think a more bottom-up approach beginning with the individual would be more effective.