On Racism

As Catholics we believe that God created all men (meaning everybody, excluding nobody) in His Image and Likeness. God loves all men passionately, enough to have become human and accepted death on the Cross for us. As Catholics we know that we have a call from God to love everyone reagardless of skin color, place of origin, culture or any other trait associated with hour human natures. In fact, the Catholic Church has a long history of doing just that.

In today’s world it has become fashionable for certain people to call those who don’t agree with them “racist.” The purpose of this name calling, as with so much other name calling, is to make sure that the one being maligned knows he is morally inferior and to try to silence him. Al too often it has nothing to do with any opinion that the one so named holds the opinion that people with one kind of ethnic characteristics is superior or inferior to another. People who thoughtlessly throw these kinds of insults around in this way are lying about their fellow man, but denigrating their humanity, both of which are sins.

It is just a nasty way to make somebody with whose opinions, frequently political, they disagree and are unable to refute logically and rationally shut up.

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