Yes , racism is a SIN . The old Catholic Baltimore Catechism remains an excellent guide to personal morality . But the SIN of RACISM does not originate in the wicked hearts of individuals . A whole social system is involved in collective social evil.
You can tell an individual capitalist that GREED is a sin but that does not change the " soul " of Wall Street .
You can tell people to love one another but that does not stop WAR . You stop war by smashing the military machine, You deconstruct the military caste mentality ( American sociologist C. Wright Mills called it " crackpot realism " ) .
You cannot begin to stop capitalist exploitation if you tell people that this economic system is forever , is based on eternal principles as if the FREE MARKET were programmed into the Big Bang 13 billion years ago.
Everything and everybody is just a moment in God's TIME .
You can tell an individual capitalist that GREED is a sin but that does not change the " soul " of Wall Street .
You can tell people to love one another but that does not stop WAR . You stop war by smashing the military machine, You deconstruct the military caste mentality ( American sociologist C. Wright Mills called it " crackpot realism " ) .
You cannot begin to stop capitalist exploitation if you tell people that this economic system is forever , is based on eternal principles as if the FREE MARKET were programmed into the Big Bang 13 billion years ago.
Everything and everybody is just a moment in God's TIME .
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