Celebration, Not Discrimination!

The Origin of Diversity

There are theories to how diversity and differences within man came about. The Bible says that God scattered a homogeneous people throughout the Earth after the people endeavored to build a great tower. 

"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language... So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the Earth." (Genesis 11:7-8)

Modern evolutionists pose the theory of "Out of Africa." This theories "genesis" was posed in Charles Darwin's Descent of Man. 

This theory states that anatomically modern humans evolved within the confines of Africa and then spread through the rest of the world. Under this theory humans would split into different groups and be exposed to different environmental pressures and would therefore accumulate changes that would set groups of humans apart. 

Despite all the theories and debates over the origin of human diversity, I believe that it matters very little in a non-research context.

Discrimination

So many conflicts arise that are based on the differences within mankind. So much pain  and horror is caused by discrimination. Everything from enslavement to the Travon Martin Shooting to the Holocaust have been caused by hatred, fear, and discrimination. 

What is gained by discriminating? Nothing. 

Celebration

What can be gained by the destruction of discrimination? Many things. Including a more unified world.

"Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them." (Genesis 11: 6) 

The Bible says it well. If the people are united "Nothing...will be withheld from them." 

Though the human race can never realistically hope to have a common language (other than math), if we can tear down the walls that separate us (that is discrimination and fear) we can learn so much from one another. So much more would be possible and many ills would be averted. 

If diversity is celebrated and discrimination abated. Th world becomes a better place.