“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.” -John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Meditation XVII
If I understand myself primarily as a Texan, then problems in California will not matter as much to me.
If I understand myself primarily as a citizen of the “White” state, then problems in the “Black” or “Hispanic” states won’t upset me much. They are not the problems of my state, therefore they are trivial.
If I understand myself primarily as a citizen of “Straight,” then the problems of “Homosexual” don’t affect me.
If I understand myself primarily as an American, well then, the problems of Sudan, Haiti, Iran, Indonesia, etc., don’t affect me.
How much more and I unaffected if I define myself in increasingly tighter circles, and concern myself only with the issues that face White, straight, male Texas Christians?
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