When is prejudice sinful?

Question

man, this is my homework and i can't seem to think and find the best answer to this question.. do you have any thoughts about this..? thanks..

Answer 1

I read prejudice and thought you said Pre-JUICE. Nasty stuff came up. You little t**t.

Answer 2

Your topic can be applied to many things which make it broad. One way to narrow it is by choosing to talk about "what makes it happen" and showing the reader that "wrong" is a moral term.

You could start by defining the opposite of prejudice and explore the concept that prejudices are rooted in different moralities.

Quick example:

Moral sense is something that permeates all activities  humans participate in its the soul of what guides thoughts and actions.

Your morals can be part of the accepted "Norm" of a group or you can be in your own "world"....that is where you hear about "extremist" groups.

Then recognize "Prejudice" can be applied in in different arenas.  Define the different arenas and think of examples that show prejudice at political-- government level--work level, social--groups--individuals .

Religions and philosophy's are always fertile ground for "moral mining" and looking at prejudices--you could start by understanding a few concepts of differing ones.

Quick example:

Prejudice  is "sinful" in the Christian since because "we have all fallen short of the glory of God"  which puts all human beings on equal moral ground.   Also the Christian bible explains that your "brother, neighbor" is all mankind and we are to give to even the "least" of these which is showing in a political moral sense equality not prejudice.

According to Christianity we are all on equal ground and we are to treat everyone with equal moral sense.

In Christianity it is taught take on an attitude that does not exclude human beings from moral value(which a prejudice does).

This type of Prejudice would cause your neighbor to close their minds to the freedom granted to them by GOD for changes to take place in their life path...and that would be a sin(trespass on His ground) against GOD

This allows the thought that all are equally worthy of accepting and participating in a "divine plan" for humanity...and that would be a sin..to keep from your neighbor.

LOTs of different ways to organize this topic. The fact "sinful" is used in your question leads to a thought this might be narrowed to the religious sense and morality would need to be defined to get a good paper out of it.

Good luck

Answer 3

prejudice is not sinful, it's just very wrong. prejudice hurts. don't be a part in it.

Answer 4

Prejudice is sinful from its inception.

Answer 5

I guess when you feel guilty about it..

Answer 6

predjudice is sinful because ...

Everyone is loved equally in the eyes of  GOD.

No one man/woman is above or below the other we are created in his image so it would be like looking at yourself in the mirror and hating what you see therefore, you would hate the way GOD made you and that would be a sin

Answer 7

Always "Judge thee not, lest though be judged."  Don't judge others if you do not want to be judged.  We do not have the right to be prejudice, after all no one wants any one to prejudice them.

Answer 8

Sinful ? Hmmmm. I know the Bible says "Judge not lest ye be Judged" and prejudice is a form of judgment.  To "pre-judge" someone. But I don't think that is sinful, exactly.

Answer 9

It's sinful just thinking about it in your mind. Even before you act out, it's sinful.

Answer 10

always

Answer 11

you cannot answer a nonsensical question.

a "sin" is something that goes against "god's law".

as far as i am aware, there is no commandment in the bible saying not to be prejudiced.

Answer 12

Prejudice can become sinful when sins are commitied because of these prejudices. (It sounds wierd, I know, but true!) For example, murdering or hurting someone in a religiously wrong way because of what biases you have on the person still counts as a sin, but is now a sin caused by this prejudice, hence, prejudice being sinful.

Hope this helped! :D

Answer 13

it's normal for people to feel prejudice, but when you act on it and treat people differently, that's when it becomes sinful. its also sinful to not accept that everyone has racist and sexist thoughts and to say that theyre both dead just because there's no longer open violence against minorities, no longer constitutional laws against them.