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On any given Sunday, G-Pop has the honor of sitting and sharing in front of an audience that mingles Republicans and Democrats indiscriminately.
Matter of fact, the Sunday morning church service may be the last location in our great country where conservatives and liberals have to sit side-by-side and crack open a common hymn book and sing harmoniously.
One of G-Pop’s sons suggested that such an environment demands too much compromise to be of use in the “kingdom of truth.”
Not so.
In the realm of reconciliation and the pursuit of being a peacemaker, there are only two enemies, and only one true danger.
Separating these two enemies is the job of every good-thinking man and woman. The two enemies are arrogance and ignorance:
- Arrogance contends, “I am smarter than you.”
- And ignorance insists, “I am better than you.
Every tragedy which has befallen our species has occurred when the statesmen and spiritual leaders of our time became too busy with politics and religion, allowing arrogance and ignorance to coalesce.
As long as we keep them separated, we can address the insecurities they possess individually.
Case in point:
Racism is the merging of arrogance and ignorance–people who think they’re smarter than other people, who also have decreed that they’re better.
It happened with the Nazis–the arrogance of Germanic tribes who thought they were smarter led to the conclusion that they were better–a Super Race.
It is what festers in the Middle East.
And it is what causes us–a supposedly enlightened people–to still be struggling over issues of color, sexuality and gender, far beyond the time of reasonability.
G-Pop teaches a simple message.
He tells people clearly, “If I am smarter than you in some areas, you are certainly smarter than me in others.”
And … no one is better than anyone else.
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