christianity

• • prejudice is against Christian beliefs and teachings
  • God created all humans equal - "for all of you are one in Jesus Christ"
• • Ten Commandments speaks about living in harmony with others
  • Jesus' examples - Good Samaritan and treatment of lepers
• • Jesus did not discriminate - Jesus asked Samaritan woman for water - Jews and Samaritians did not associate
• • Roman Catholic churches do not allow for women to be priets
  • Methodist/Anglican churches allow women to be priests, ministers or bishops
• Matin Luther King:

  • was a Christian - believed in non-violence, love and equality
  • he dreamed of world without discrimination and equality
  • he gave speeches and organised peaceful campaigns and marches
  • he said: "we must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools"
  • he said: "mankind must revolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation"