Prejudice

And some of these Americans have found it really hard to get a job over there in Europe.

I guess, well, it's probably prejudice.

Prejudice, discrimination against Americans.

One guy said, man, if you don't look like you're German and you're not German, they're going to treat you differently here.

That's what he said.

A family struggling financially can direct its anger toward immigrants instead of examining corporate power.

Prejudice becomes a political delivery system for policies that undermine working people's security.

The answer cannot be given precedence on restricted power to cancel elections whenever they allege confusion.

That would hand an authoritarian the weapon he wants.

We don't want to go where he tells us to go, et cetera, et cetera.

One of those big reasons is sheer prejudice.

Prejudice and I need to define it for you before we get any further the dictionary definition is as good as any a judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known or before the case is heard a preconceived idea usually unfavorable a judgment or opinion held secondly in disregard of the facts that are known there's almost two parts of prejudice a Sometimes we prejudge something and make our own decisions about it without any of the facts ever being heard.

But another sort of prejudice is when we know the facts very well.

And in a sense we say, my mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts.

You know, before I came to Jesus, I would literally cross over the road before I would walk on the same side of the street as those young people if I saw them coming towards me.

I was such a snob.

Prejudiced.

Verse 17 says this, true wisdom is from above, is pure, it's peaceful, it's gentle, It's friendly, it's full of compassion, and then get this, it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.

Don't call yourself wise if you think people are less or more than you or all the same.

Prejudice, free from prejudice is a mark of wisdom.

You see, knowledge shows up on tests, but wisdom shows up in relationships.

And when I have a relationship where I treat you less than you deserve to be treated, it just shows I'm a fool.

There's a fourth reason why the Bible says we should not give into the sin of partiality.

And it's because prejudice is a serious sin.

Prejudice is a serious sin.

When those whom our imaginations have clothed with such excellent qualities or whom we suppose to be our friends are seen to be unworthy or have turned out to be foes.

Section eight, Prejudice.

It presupposes certain tendencies, convictions, affections, or purposes which have been thwarted, and then all that is associated with the disappointments raise malign feelings which often lead to unjustifiable conduct.

There are scenes at which we have suffered a humiliation or experienced a sorrow, and we ever afterwards avoid them.