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Originally Posted by Apostolic1ness
who is the "we" that should be making restitution or reparation. Are you speaking of a nation or a family or an individual for something they personally did? Restitution or reparation to whom? Those immediately effected, generations after the original victim, who? so there was slavery in the US, who owned slaves? all white people? who were the slaves? all black people? this type of identity politics is what is ruining our country. group classification is the single biggest instigator of hate in our nation and you still push it. individuals should be treated, judged etc as individuals not groups.
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That is a very important question. "We" primarily means those of us who are saved and take righteousness as being more than dress codes or personal religious practice. Secondarily, it can also speak to a nation, a family, or individuals for something they personally did, or perhaps didn't do.
Restitution or reparation is not always possible. We have to accept that. And I think that's a point you're making. We agree here.
But when there is a means to right any wrong that still causes pain or loss, no matter how small, and we fail or refuse to even consider it or take the necessary action if known, we will share responsibility for it.
If one's ancestors waged war and stole food producing land from an entire nation, leaving that people to languished in a broken society, with scarce food resources for generations... and those alive today have the means to relieve the pain of that people... and they don't... they are taking part in the feast of stolen bread... and perpetuating the pain, misery, and death inflicted on that people by their fathers. Are they not?
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