The Samaritan Divide
The greatest rift to peace in the United States is and always has been its racial divide. A divide that started hundreds of years ago that seems impossible to close. However, it is imperative that it closes. I believe that present-day commentators and activists on both the right and left are very far off on putting this issue to bed. Besides missing the key ingredients of God and His Truth, present-day civil rights activists lack an important virtue, and practically blatantly preach against it. That key virtue is Humility. I am not just calling out the activists for lacking in the virtue. Our society from the actual racists, people with biases, to the indifferent, and to myself all lack humility. Fr. Bryan Massingale, a Catholic thought leader on racism, once said, "At it's Core Racism is a Soul Sickness" That soul sickness starts with the capital sin of Pride. When one's heart is completely filled with pride, they are incapable of loving. Humility allows oneself to...