How does God feel about other countries, other religions, and the dignity of people of other cultures?

On this planet earth that we inhabit there are numerous outlooks, attitudes, values, morals, goals, and customs that are a part of all that we know and experience here. Whatever form of persuasiveness these persuasions have on us they will undoubtedly lead, inspire, and unfailingly win the loyalty of each single mind to some perspective. We are individually standing alone in the world and standing here now we will unavoidably adapt to these influences knowingly or not. As a lone person we now stand mysteriously before uncertainty standing here before the utter unknown.

 

For anyone hungry for truth, or at least relevancy in how one chooses to live or care about what matters, that persons journey then, as a mind being fed perspective, is a journey busy acquiring some form of knowledge and truth perspective. What that person will be confronted by in life is different for each person everywhere too.

 

Despite any hesitation that person has, or resistance in allowing change, inevitably and unavoidable that person will be persuaded and changed in the world somehow by the worlds ideas. Whatever continent or culture one is from  ideas are being experienced there. The person will encounter human arguments by preachers, teachers, advisers, friends, political leaders, media etc. These persuasions will then form what that person normalizes and sees as their truth. It can be observed naturally enough by reason that ideas then shape human beings everywhere right?

 

If our imperfect minds are being adapted imperfectly to different influences, and I’m being shaped in this way, as is everyone else, then our experiences cannot be anything other then unique and different then. The persuasion these ideas have on people must be better for some, worst for others, from Iran to Moscow to Bangkok to Brazil and to the entire world beyond. The effects that different influences of thought has on people are these not influences falling on the perceptions then of innocent people.

 

 I believe we can suspect and look at people when they have different political objectives in a way where they aren’t like us exactly. How do we view people when they are militant or their nationalism and position in the world isn’t in harmony with ours. How do we view foreigners when their religion is foreign to us. With Christians when other people far away from us deny our claim of salvation and deny who God is supposed to be how do we see them really. Can these other people, after their different ideology is accounted for in their different thinking,  be seen as the same blank slate, as innocent, vulnerable, susceptible people. Isn’t that what we all really are in this world as we struggle to understand. 

 

Do some of us approach the people of other nations like they were predestined by God to be inherently evil people.

 

From birth we see no child anywhere in the world as inherently evil.  Why then does it seem in the same breath as we say that no child in the world is evil do so many of us, of course not all of us, then lose sight of the intrinsic value of entire populations of the men and women there. Just twenty years later now the once children, now young men and women, have become so different. They have supposedly in our eyes perhaps reached the age of accountability. It is like they were faced with such a fair chance to think like we think. Now it is like for many of us like they exist somewhere God is not.

 

As adults how did these people stop sharing our humanity. True many informed people love their enemy and wish well on everyone but many don’t. True these others might hate us and have an agenda that rivals us. They may even want to hurt us. Yet why do they not appear to us as innocent victims of doctrine that has shaped their minds. These people were after all won over by a dictator or preached to by a different religious influence in that state. These people were shaped by breezes of ideas often naively and innocently enough. They were persuaded by persuasions that we all adapt to, if confronted by the same kind in the same way. It is true that these ideologies can come in a truly ugly form but the human person is vulnerable to indoctrination, is drawn to group dynamics and to causes to live and die for like every human being.

 

In our defensiveness of the threat posed by other people lost to evil influences out of self preservation and our defense of our values we will of course be guarded and prepared to fight for those values. Yet should other people ever lose their human dignity. Do they ever lose their value as children of God. Why must we hold so many human beings with such suspect in our eyes for what is unavoidable. What is unavoidable is that ideas are harnessed and spread and effect masses of humanity through indoctrinations that they can’t foresee. Shouldn't we therefore have compassion on our fellow human beings like us everywhere. What we instinctively seem to do is judge others and categorize them according to ideological correctness but is this really fair.

 

As a human person we have dignity and a great potential for good. The evil in the world doesn’t have to come with clarity for us and probably never has when it affected us across history. Evil just effects minds everywhere who don’t understand a better way confusing a person and harming them and others.

 

There is no guaranteed way to avoid evils persuasion on the innocent person. Evil effects a persons reasoning, judgment and behavior. Evil inspires deviousness, hatred, it justifies war and does indignities to human life while robbing peace.  Evil steals family members to death, leaves people alone, and forsakes the poor and needy.

Evil wishes to humiliate people. There is no guarantee that others effected by evil won’t intrude into your life or mine. Its effect on us is very possible as we try and live a good life.

 

We all have minds that are struggling for peace. We want to be loved and naturally enough to be treated well.  The human person, wherever that person is in this world, is fallible, and being fallible a person is universally  ill-equipped and ill-suited to be ideologically lead in one “specific” direction. We are not able, all of us at once,  everywhere we are, to be able to hold one specific belief of what is supposed to be the “truth.” We cannot know that specific belief all of the time and in all of the places. Everyone cannot know the truth now even if part of the truth is really attainable in this world. People by nature, simply by the the laws of opportunity and chance, will choose differently when faced with ideas. Naturally people see the world differently. The arguments around those people will be different which means a belief for them on their individual journey through the world is different.

 

Do we choose to love people everywhere and  spare them our ideological condemnations. Is it right instead to hold the position that if people don’t think like me, and those I’m familiar with, they are not on the right side of God and His mercy and His hope. Do we determine therefore, “That those other people over in another part of the world do not see the truth as I see the truth.” Do we reason then that, “They have not accepted the truth and therefore those other people have no future with God.”

 

Is there any compassion or fairness in this view as we consider it at this time in history. In modern times now, in the way we now presently know the world to work, does this even make sense. Is this the position that God would take on this.

 

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father's care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”