"Consort with all the peoples, kindreds and religions of the world, with the utmost truthfulness, uprightness, faithfulness, ... that ignorance, enmity, hate and rancour may vanish from the world and the darkness of estrangement amidst the peoples and kindreds of the world may give way to the Light of Unity." "Do not be satisfied until each one with whom you are concerned is to you as a member of your family. Regard each one either as a father, or as a brother, or a sister, or as a mother, or as a child. If you can attain to this, your difficulties will vanish; you will know what to do. ... The only difference between members of the human family is that of degree. Some are like children who are ignorant and must be educated until they arrive at maturity. Some are like the sick and must be treated with tenderness and care. None are bad or evil! We must not be repelled by these poor children. We must treat them with great kindness, teaching the ignorant and tenderly nursing the sick."

-Bahá'u'lláh
[This message was edited Wed Oct 23 12:42:57 PDT 2002 by feltbluish]

Amen!!!

Thank you for this thread, FeltBluish.

In these uncertain times, hate for another based on color, religion or whatever other stupid reason people hate each other for, seen really idiotic. I was once one of those people. I hated white people with a passion. Not because of the color of their skin, but for the evil things they've done to black people. I had comfortable with my hate because I felt it was justified. Now, my very bestest friend in the whole wide world is a white man. I thank God for removing that hatred from my soul and bringing a very beautiful relationship into my life. If I had held on to that hatred I would have missed out on some really good times. I feel sorry for anyone bound to hate just because of another's color, religion, creed or whatever.

If only people would think before they start talking race and color of skin. More than half the time it's VERY unnecessary.