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Advantage due to skin colour ...
perhaps it's time to swap the advantage from pinkish to a new colour.
Yeah, coz 'black' skinned people all around the world have shown, how much more conscious
'black' skinned people are, of what is right, and of what is wrong.
/sarc off.
PROPOSITION;Everyone, every human being, would prefer to escape living in jurisdictions where injustice and human corruption and violent crime is
rife.
Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Amazingly, those people [who have lived amongst crime and violence] always appear so grateful,
whenever they gain permission to migrate to a 'different'
jurisdiction, to a place where it is widely perceived,
that
institutional respect for truth and respect for the rule of law,
tends to make that jurisdiction, much more just and peaceful, and a much more preferable place to live in.
['institutional' respect for truth i.e. among people like government officials, police, and judges in courts of law, and commissions in law]
Dictionary;
rife = = widespread. full of."Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
Psalms 15:1
LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
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QUESTION;If we all respect [and desire] the fruits of merit, and virtue,
and if we really do hate injustice [whenever that injustice comes to our own door],
why is it, that so few human beings are willing show respect for, or are willing to defend, that [only] which brings merit, and virtue,
AND PEACE ?
A love of truth.
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit;
through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
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Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs 28:4
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
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Leviticus 11:44
For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy:....
Leviticus 19:2
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
Leviticus 20:26
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you....
2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal,
The Lord knoweth them that are his....