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If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Let brotherly love continue.
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?
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Prejudice
never seems to let man go and thinking about it one day I wrote the
following short story. I first wrote this for the Presbyterian Survey
magazine over 40 years ago…for yes, prejudice was alive and well in
those days too.
1 John 4:20
1 John 4:20
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
He reached down
and picked up the strange looking mechanism that kept trying to roll
away from his grasp. It was some kind of flying machine; still warm from
having entered their 237 degree atmosphere. The three suns in the sky
seemed always to be trying to outdo each other.
This
was not the first missile to fall from out their sky. And over the
years, all those messages had kept coming and coming. But most of what
their kind knew had been learned from THE THREE who had actually visited
that strange oblate spheroid. Visited it once, but never again.
“What is it?” his companion asked with the trace of what might have been called a smile of anticipation.
“It is from earth.”
He raised his eyebrow and asked, “And you have been to earth?”
He paused before replying, “Yes, I was one of “THE THREE.” It was most depressing.”
“Really? They couldn’t see you, of course.”
“Of course not. I wore my invisibility shield.”
“They are obviously of an inferior race.”
They expressed their agreement in the way such agreements had been expressed for centuries. It was almost a litany as together they repeated, “The color of their skin is very pale, anemic to the eye. Others of them are quite lack without luster. Some even have a tinge of yellow. Some black. All kinds of different shades. They can’t seem to agree on a common color.”
A younger member of the community had just arrived. It spoke “Heavens! No green skin? Then, of course, they must be inferior. And their customs?”
“Barbaric!”
“How so?”
“They talk.”
“Talk? You mean they actually speak? How uncouth! I thought all advanced races communicated by thought waves in this day and age.”
Their antennas glowed bright.
“These do not, and such a myriad of languages and dialects! They can transmit hardly any distance at all and one nation cannot understand the other. That’s probably why they are always so angry with each other. And someone seems to be trying to gain more and more power all the time.”
“Very archaic; no wonder they still have wars.”
“And pollution is everywhere.”
Another younger IT had arrived. He wrinkled his glock and joined in the conversation, “Oh yes, I remember that from our own ancient history. You mean they still have it?”
“It often makes them ill.”
“Well, naturally, from everything you’ve told us, it couldn’t be any other way. By the way, are there any exceptions in these…now what would you call them?”
“Exceptions? Oh, yes…a few; but then you know how it is, once an earthling always an earthling”
“We might be able to use the exceptions.”
“Tell them they’re equal but treat them as if they aren’t?”
“OF COURSE!”
“We could give them equal opportunities and they might produce.”
“Possibly.”
“Not too many. We wouldn’t want them to get delusions of grandeur.”
They had not moved for several time sequences.
“It is too bad, isn’t it?”
“Tragic!”
“But I guess that’s the way God wanted it.”
“Yes, I certainly am glad He made me like I am.”
“You have the most beautiful tentacles I’ve ever seen.”
“Well now, your claws are nothing to be ashamed of.”
“Come on, let’s slither over to the cone. I’ll buy you an atomic soda.”
“Thanks, don’t mind if I do. This discussion has upset me terribly.
He raised his eyebrow and asked, “And you have been to earth?”
He paused before replying, “Yes, I was one of “THE THREE.” It was most depressing.”
“Really? They couldn’t see you, of course.”
“Of course not. I wore my invisibility shield.”
“They are obviously of an inferior race.”
They expressed their agreement in the way such agreements had been expressed for centuries. It was almost a litany as together they repeated, “The color of their skin is very pale, anemic to the eye. Others of them are quite lack without luster. Some even have a tinge of yellow. Some black. All kinds of different shades. They can’t seem to agree on a common color.”
A younger member of the community had just arrived. It spoke “Heavens! No green skin? Then, of course, they must be inferior. And their customs?”
“Barbaric!”
“How so?”
“They talk.”
“Talk? You mean they actually speak? How uncouth! I thought all advanced races communicated by thought waves in this day and age.”
Their antennas glowed bright.
“These do not, and such a myriad of languages and dialects! They can transmit hardly any distance at all and one nation cannot understand the other. That’s probably why they are always so angry with each other. And someone seems to be trying to gain more and more power all the time.”
“Very archaic; no wonder they still have wars.”
“And pollution is everywhere.”
Another younger IT had arrived. He wrinkled his glock and joined in the conversation, “Oh yes, I remember that from our own ancient history. You mean they still have it?”
“It often makes them ill.”
“Well, naturally, from everything you’ve told us, it couldn’t be any other way. By the way, are there any exceptions in these…now what would you call them?”
“Exceptions? Oh, yes…a few; but then you know how it is, once an earthling always an earthling”
“We might be able to use the exceptions.”
“Tell them they’re equal but treat them as if they aren’t?”
“OF COURSE!”
“We could give them equal opportunities and they might produce.”
“Possibly.”
“Not too many. We wouldn’t want them to get delusions of grandeur.”
They had not moved for several time sequences.
“It is too bad, isn’t it?”
“Tragic!”
“But I guess that’s the way God wanted it.”
“Yes, I certainly am glad He made me like I am.”
“You have the most beautiful tentacles I’ve ever seen.”
“Well now, your claws are nothing to be ashamed of.”
“Come on, let’s slither over to the cone. I’ll buy you an atomic soda.”
“Thanks, don’t mind if I do. This discussion has upset me terribly.
Will we never learn?
John 13:35
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
Psalm 133:1
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?
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