Tuesday, March, 24, 2009

Exodus 5 – Oppressed or oppressor?

Posted at: 5:00 am

When you read the story of the oppression of the Hebrew people under the direction of Pharaoh and his foreman, who do you identify with? If you are like most people I know you identify with the oppressed Hebrews. But in the real world are we the oppressor or are we the oppressed? Do our actions cause the suffering, disempowerment, and belittlement of other human beings?

I would argue we (North American) Christians are more likely to be playing the role of the Egyptians than the role of the Hebrews. It would be good to spend some time considering ways we may be complicit in human suffering, ways we may be enabling human enslavement, ways we are disempowering humans, ways we are entertained by human belittlement. Then we need to focus on ways to correct these behaviors.

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