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... t foreigners who are living in your land. Treat them as you would a fellow-Israelite, and love them as you love yourselves.´ (Leviticus 19:33-34). This teaching was originally said to the Israelites, but Christians can apply the teaching to racism. It tells them that they should treat foreigners with the same respect as they do to other people around them. God loved all people, even foreigners, he treated them all the same and saw them all as equal people: '…the same rules are binding on you and the foreigners among you. You and they are alike in the lords sight´ (Numbers 15:15). Everyone must follow the rules and teachings which God set, there are no exceptions for foreigners. It is important that foreigners are treated no differently to everyone else: 'Do not deprive foreigners of their rights….Remember that you were once foreigners in Egypt´ (Deuteronomy 24:17). The Israelites were in Egypt as slaves, and when they were there, they were foreigners, and they would have wanted to be treated equally. These teachings show us that racism was not acceptable then and shouldn´t be now
(b) Explain how Christians might respond to racism. There are mainly two different ways by which Christians respond to racism. Violent and non-violent. There are a number of well-known Christian pacifists, such as Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu and Trevor Huddleston. 'A pacifist is a person who believes that all forms of violence are wrong´ (Keene pg154). They believe that anything which causes physical pain and suffering is bad, and that there are always other ways of solving the problem. Martin Luther King, the American Baptist Minister, is very famous for his work opposing racism. In the Southern states of America in the 1950´s and 1960´s discrimination and prejudice against black people was very common indeed. People in the black community feared that the situation was going to escalate and become like that of South Africa where black people´s earnings were only about half of those o ...
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