Why racism is a direct insult to God

I was listening to the great baseball player Reggie Jackson on the Howard Stern show speaking about the racism he dealt with early in his baseball career. Reggie Jackson, an African American, is also a retired former Major League Baseball player who's nicknamed "Mr. October" for his outstanding powerful home run hitting he seemed to muster up in his October playoffs and world series appearances throughout major league seasons. In his interview with Howard Stern, he told stories of how as a young baseball player he would be banned from staying in certain hotels and eating in certain restaurants due to his skin color, and he also said how his teammates and manager would move to another hotel and restaurant as a TEAM when they encountered racism. 

Racism flies in the face of what God, I think, intended when he created humans in our diverse multicultural existence. It's like God had a plan to teach us tolerance, love, and appreciation for our differences, and racists never learned the lesson. Racists are threatened by the "differences" we all have, and Satan uses that fear to promote power, hate, and territorialism. It's the same "fear" that can exist when it comes to homophobia, and hardened intolerance of immigrants. IF we are all created in the image of God then aren't we expected to at least TRY and respect and accept others despite our differences? 

I was thinking recently about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. What would have happened if Martin Luther King Jr. hadn't made it his life's purpose to CHANGE the ugly sin of racism in American culture? It cost him his life but make no mistake if we are INDEED created in the image of God then Martin Luther King Jr.'s actions reflect Martin Luther King Jr. as an agent for God's love. It's why people like Martin Luther King Jr. should be remembered for their bravery and promotion of GOD'S wishes for acceptance and equality.  Nelson Mandela was also an agent for God having sacrificed twenty-seven years of his life to fight apartheid in South Africa and pave the way for African Americans to vote and enjoy other God given rights as equal human beings in a racist country like South Africa. Although racism can NEVER be eradicated it CAN be weakened paving the way for tolerance and acceptance.

I like to look at what lessons lie underneath the human problems we have and IF God is God and (and I believe he is) he's overseeing this grand play called LIFE and giving us lessons to learn to either promote growth in love or fail for hate and stagnation. In the case of ANY kind of bias I think (within) reason TOLERANCE is the takeaway. There's a big difference between ACCEPTANCE and TOLERANCE. I can TOLERATE something and NOT necessarily accept it. In the case of ethnic differences between people obviously intolerance would be what lies behind segregation, slavery, etc., and even more subtle expressions like not supporting interracial dating, unfair judgment of different ethnic humans as "dumber" or "lower class" connects to the same problem of racial bias. It's the myopic condition of one's supposed superiority because of skin color. 

The whole "racist" mentality is directly connected to Satan because it's ANTI-GOD, and flies in the face of what Christ promoted during his ministry on earth.  Satan is that energy behind ANY expression, thought, whatever festers inside a person in bias against another person, group. "Sin" is THAT condition in ALL OF US that's the "seed" of what racism embodies. It's impossible for true Christian to be racist if one claims to be a believer in Christ but acts upon his racist thoughts and truly lives as a racist person. 

So, next time you encounter racism, a racist, or a have a racist thought remember it's part of our spiritual DNA as sinners so we'll never be without sin, but what do WE DO with it?