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In reply to the discussion: A familiar, and very old, observation. [View all]rug
(82,333 posts)21. I don't think you know what bigotry is.
If you use that term, as you understand it, to a first century Jewish convert, who also had the privilege of Roman citizenship, you cannot escape viewing all of human history, save the last century or two, as the result of bigotry, as you understand it. And that is ignorance.
So, who in the first century CE would you consider not to be a bigot?
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Yes he did speak to that effect. But that particular phrase is attributed to Peter.
rug
Apr 2015
#29
Well, I don't think you'll find that the oppressed are free of bigotry becase they're oppressed.
rug
Apr 2015
#39
Women and gay people were subjected to discrimination, even by the poor, in the first centry CE.
rug
Apr 2015
#54
some of our friends in here either have me on ignore or have chosen not to respond to me anymore.
hrmjustin
Apr 2015
#72
As soon as you learn the difference between a zombie, an avatar, a unicorn and a Messiah.
rug
Apr 2015
#52
We don't as Christians call him a Zombie and find it offensive to call him such.
hrmjustin
Apr 2015
#63
I know what the definition is and I can tell you the modern walking dead definition comes to mind.
hrmjustin
Apr 2015
#84
Yes, it is. Faith can be very real and also futile. Sound and fury as the writer said.
pinto
Apr 2015
#24
I find it suggestive that Paul was in an argument over whether the dead are raised,
Htom Sirveaux
Apr 2015
#36