Public schools in America have increasingly been under attack by parents over dress codes. Gangs have taken their cue from the religious entities around the world and they’re organizing around how they dress, the colors they wear, and the symbols of graffiti they they litter our vacant buildings and highway bridges with these days. What religious symbols you ask?
Well, let just take the three major religions that are warring over the City of Jerusalem.
You can get shot by displaying either the Christian Cross, the Jewish Star, or the Islamic Cresent. It’s like being the only Dodger fan wearing Dodger blue to a San Francisco Giants baseball game. Are you crazy? Well, yes, many are now that you asked.
And then there’s your language that you use without thinking. You know, saying things like your pastor or worshipping at your church, verses talking about your rabbi worshipping at your synagogue, or your Iman worshipping at you mosque.
Why do those symbols have to be so divisive when we all were created by the same God?
Could it really be that one day the lamb and the lion will be able to lay down together, peacefully? Could it be that the lion and the lamb are waiting on the Christian and the Muslim to lead the way? Is “creation” really groaning under the weight of our disobedience?
Must our symbols continue to separate us?
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