never despise anyone

In this life that we have turned into a carnival, everything is measured by appearances. Everything enters through the eyes and from the concept that the one who has the most is worth the most.

Everything is appreciated the concept of property: money, beauty, fame, titles, belonging to elites. The more of these things you have, the more they respect you. And the contempt comes precisely because of that, because there is none of that. The concept of a person, with value intrinsic to being a child of God, having dignity, Being someone unrepeatable, unique, endowed with a mission that the Creator gave to fulfill in life, that is worthless.

The contempt felt by human beings by others, where classicism, racism, radical nationalism, religious extremismThey cause rejection, marginalize, trample, they have turned our humanity into an extermination camp where one dismembers the other, making the history of many human beings more than others a slaughterhouse. The Nazi extermination camps happened not only in the framework World War IIbut in every place and time where groups are marginalized because of the color of their skin.

In the United States, still after the 1960s, blacks in the South could not go to the restaurants, cinemas, bars that were exclusively for whites. In all these centers, the sign “Blacks and dogs are prohibited” has been placed. Black people on buses sat in the middle seats in the back. Stalin exterminated more than thirty million Russians in Russia because they did not participate in communist ideology, or were dissidents. Simply by thinking differently.

In our society, with increasing impudence, It will depend on the money you have in the bank, real estate that you own, the clothes you wear, the influences that support you, so you are “someone”. Many people live in modern extermination camps because they were born poor, had no opportunities, did not go to school, were poorly clothed, and were always poorly fed. They are very large masses, living in the periphery of our society.

Well, all these people, because of their social, economic, racial condition, their beliefs, are despised. We can also secretly despise ourselves, marginalize, put aside. That is why our faith, in addition to its saving, redemptive value, is of exceptional importance. Because Christ taught us never to despisebut to recognize the value of a person, every person, because of his condition as a child of God, temple of the Holy Spirit, for inimitability, uniqueness, possession inherent dignity of his human being. Respect for each person is the foundation of an authentic Christian.

never despise