RS Courswork - Racism and Religion.
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... A: Racism: - 1. The belief that races has distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others. 2. Abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief. Racism can be caused by many things but often Racism can be defined as 'a belief in the superiority of one race over all others. In Christianity The Church Of England and Roman Catholic both condemn racism of any form. Every Christian would have been brought up believing that racism is wrong, nevertheless it still occurs today. There are many teachings in the Bible which suggest that racism is wrong, from the Bible we can see that "GOD" showed unconditional love to all of his followers, no matter what race, this was written in the bible: "...it is true that God treats everyone on the same basis....














