Why is racism encouraged in christianity?

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I believe that God created everyone equally and intended for everyone to be treated equally. The Psalmist writes in Psalm 8:4: "You have made man with just a little of God lacking in him." I think this statement indicates that God has given each individual equal dignity, a dignity that certainly cannot be found in the preaching of Charles Darwin.

During his lifetime, Darwin proclaimed both racist and sexist sentiments. Although the title of Darwin's well-known book is The Origin of Species, the complete title of that book is The Origin of Species of Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life - the favorite race being the white one. Charles Darwin, in his autobiography, also propounds the theory that women are mentally inferior to men. In his autobiography Darwin writes, "the average mental power in man must be above that of women."

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I realize the Truth would sound weird to you since you're so used to your religion of subjugation and moral slavery. It's okay. There is some Truth in you too...just you're afraid of it all and feel the need to conform. It's common, there's many studies that back up the commonality of it.

well, if you criticize what you say to be absolute morality from Christians, by saying that shared morality is a myth, which I'm not sure if that's actually the case when you say "shared morality is a myth" then I would see a problem with principles you are defending, I mean, you seem to have your own moral principles that differ from few Christians as you stated in your post, if shared morality is a myth, then you have a problem to support your own moral values as the right ones that everyone should follow, because, according to it, it would seem that I don't have to share your values, given your claim on shared morality, in that regard, I as many can very well be strongly pro-life, abstinence-only advocate, antigay-marriage/rights advocate, etc, for that fact that I and everyone else don't have to share your own moral values.

By shared morality, I would mean that everyone has their own shades of morality but there are certain things that should or shouldn't be law according to how it effects society on the whole. The points that I illustrated were ones where certain points of this illusion of "shared morality" have lead to greater societal failures than if they were simply ignored or treated in a different manner where judgment isn't cast on the decision but rather treating the whole as a problem.

I don't think everyone should hold the same morals as me but I think the matter of which of these morals are legislated should be treated with much more care and treated much more delicately than the self-righteous means by which most of everything is treated. I'm not saying that there should be no morality at all or that one doesn't have a right to their own moral choices...just they don't have a right to others' moral choices.

And I realize the above puts me in contradiction with myself on the matter of how I view racists as scum but that, again, appeals more to the greater social equation than any esoteric absolutism of morality.

I'd dare to say that I'm amoral but I have a very strong conviction toward understanding and wanting to understand social consequences and to encourage the most productive and best out of society and I'd draw a very distinct line in the metaphorical sand between matters of social consequence and matters of personal morality. Though, admittedly, some of those matters would take time to really understand. For example, I think abortion has been legal long enough to show that it isn't of any social consequence. It is most certainly of moral consequence to a vast many of people but, on average, a woman who gets an abortion will have only one. Additionally, abortions are not that commonplace and account for a small minority of the population of women. And more so than previous mentioned figure, it has not lead to any notable decline in society and, in fact, is not a matter ever within the consciousness of the public other than when it's discussed. One can argue about "moral decline" in relation to it but it wouldn't have any basis in fact and only reside in the realm of opinion and, more specifically, in the realm of opinion dismissing the entire history of "moral decline" completely unassociated with abortion.

But true none the less.
I don't trust the bible AT ALL. Not just because it is the mother goose of the bronze-age, but it can be used by the religious to justify ANYTHING. Good or evil.