I was having a discussion about social and class division the other day with some elder people. We both agreed that racism and bigotry can be traced back to the Tower of Babel. Before that there were different tribes and subdivisions of people on the earth but that was the big change in Human Evolution and communication.
Genesis 11:1-9
New International Version (NIV)The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel —because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
That is one reason why I am putting my campaign out in the open about the Church of the New Jerusalem. We were all one at one time and they pretend like we are all so different but yet they struggle to be heard and accepted so they take it out on other Christians. I never had anything but love for Rachel and her family I think because Rachel's mother didnt truly sit down and discuss religion with me she may have thought that we could not get along religiously. I also never asked to be born different from Rachel it is just a fact of life. My best friends in the world are a white guy, a pakistani guy, and a white girl and I treat them like brother and sister as family. Rachel was my best friend and my sister in Christ so why would I want to do anything but love her as my own flesh. I love Rachel so much that I am willing to risk whatever it takes for her to stop ignoring me and if I have to go another year doing things and celebrating that love I will. If you took the time to listen to the song "Subdivisions" by Rush it is about seperation, alienation, and treating others different. You dont know the damage you can do by stereotyping and putting others down. I never look at someone because of their religion, their skin color, or what God gave them as a sexual organ to determine if I could love them. I look at that person and love them for who they are. Black, white, green, guy, girl, muslim, New Church, Bahai(yes one of my dear friends is of that faith and has done ministry) Christian, Catholic, or whatever it may be. I loved Rachel for all she was and it will only make the Church of the New Jerusalem and Rachel look bad if I am telling people how I was treated by a Church who claims to accept others of faith. I will leave you all with this today
Emanuel Swedenborg : All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good- This is a great discussion page I found from a few years back about Swedenborg and I will use these valid points in spreading the word and theology of Emmanuel Swedenborg
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?120314-Swedenborg-how-he-influenced-Joseph-Smith/page3
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