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Raca: The Danger of Dismissiveness
Send us Fan MailRaca: The Danger of Dismissiveness “Anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court…” — Matthew 5:22Most of us would never take a life.But Jesus says something just as serious begins much earlier.Raca was an insult meaning “empty-headed.” Worthless. Beneath consideration.It wasn’t violent anger.It was dismissal.And dismissal is dangerous.When we roll our eyes…when we reduce someone to a stereotype…when we treat their concerns as noise…We begin shrinking their humanity.In doing so we begin shrinking ours. Contempt does not appear overnight.It grows…
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