What wisdom advice did King Solomon have about mocking others?
The Chicago Tribune has two articles which I believe can be related to blackface and the N-word. One relates to how the media portrayed white students mocking American Indians, the other about listening to song vs. with the N-word.
The Purpose of This Post
To relate both of these articles to the ancient root cause of people mocking other people.
King Solomon
Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished. (Proverb 17:5)
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. (Proverb 22:2)
What’s My Point?
Mocking people was a problem 3000 years ago as evidenced by the above proverbs. The practice carried on from the sinful pride of rich mocking the poor over time to other hateful actions.
For example, Halloween originated as a pagan festival to mock the day before the Christians celebrate All Saints Day.
However, if a black person sings a song verse with the N-word, it may not be as offensive than if a white person uses the N-word.
My point is mocking is a sin, and if the concept of sin is ignored by anyone regardless of wealth, birth, or color, or culture, a punishment is deserving. Whether the punishment is in the present or future after death makes no difference
In other words, the Bible advice is simple, it is a sin of pride to mock anyone because it is an offense to God, the maker of every living person.
In My Opinion,
Over time, and especially in our contemporary world and times, teaching Bible wisdom to avoid sin of pride and mocking others is disappearing from culture.
The result is more and more divisiveness and division as evidenced in USA politics, cities, States and neighborhoods separating themselves from each other.
As for the reason why, people are not offended listening to a song using the N-word, but will raise holy hell if someone of a different race uses the word or mocks the color of their skin or wealth, it is a sign of a breakdown taking place in our Nation by people dividing themselves into groups instead of unifying into the Nations of God.
In other words, one sin leads to another.
If Interested,
Read the articles in thee Source Links below.
You Decide
Sinfulness and demising teaching of religion is a wise of foolish path taking place in our Nation?
Are news media sources and songwriters and performers sinful troublemakers by not reporting the news objectively about President Trump, or mocking people? (See previous post below)
Mocking 3000 years ago, same as now, when will we wise up?
Regards and good will blogging.
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Rudy u Martinka 
Reporting the news objectively about President Trump??? What you are saying is that the news should report on all the :”good” things Trump has done in spite of the way he might do it.. or the “reasons” he conjures up to justify it… or the lies he constantly spews out in conjunction with his schoolyard bullying… or his maniacal Tweeting … or without taking into consideration his immoral character and total ignorance or respect of our traditional institutions? You mea.. all THAT “good” news?
Honestly… IF Trump has done any good for the country I would trade it all in a heartbeat for him to just leave office before he does any more damage in encouraging our national divisiveness and sending into the dumpster our international prestige as a democratic nation.
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It seems rich that in article about the dangers of mocking your whole response is to mock our President. Yikes!
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You might try and understand the difference between criticism and mocking. Do I really need to define both for you? In fact.. we should point out that Trump has done far more public mocking (Pocahontas, Crooked Hillary, Little Rocket Man, Low Energy Jeb, Lyin’ Ted, Little Marco, Crazy Maxine Waters, etc.) than any president in modern history.
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Doug, I actually do understand the difference between mocking and criticism. You insinuation that I am an idiot isn’t useful.
It seems to me that when you make a reference to “maniacal tweeting”, that is not a criticism. It seems to it is mocking. Just my opinion. Or are you the only one that have opinions?
My opinion is unmoved. I found your comments humorous.
Apparently the feedback isn’t helpful.
Blessings!
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You still haven’t got the definitions down quite correctly. .. and Trump apparently doesn’t care one way or the other what anyone wants to call it as he simply says what he says.
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Doug, I may be wrong but my observations of Trumps descriptions are in response after they attack him in a derogatory way.
Frankly, I find a lot of his nicknames spot on.
For example,
Crroked Hillary, if you ever check her so called her charitable Foundation where only 10 percent of “donations” went to the charities.
Pocahontas for a Senator who claimed to be Indian Decent to obtain favorable staturs.
etc. etc.
What goes around comes around is an old idiom.
Regards and good will blogging.
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Micheal,
My advice when you read some of Dougs comments is to remember this.
Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.
I personally enjoy when Doug comments so I can get a “clue what is going on in the minds of Trump haters.
Regards and good will blgooging.
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I dunno, Rudy.. I think you’re getting carried away here. You are in no way qualified to use divine scripture in an attempt to judge me.. or mock me. (Now THAT is the definition of mockery, Rudy… using His last words in an attempt to defame my words.)
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Doug, the divine scripture is meant to provide guidance what to do when people harm or offend you for not understanding what they are doing..
If I offended you, you might want to forgive me for using that scripture because I don’t understand Trump haters reasons to mock Trump especially when he is doing everything he promised in his election campaign before he won.
Regards and good will blogging.
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I know better than to take direct offense to what you throw in a reply to me, Rudy, because by now I have a sense of who you are. But I needed to call you on it just the same… and I’m here to tell ya, buddy… your own guy you want in power is even making you get carried away. This Trump-inspired garbage divisiveness has gotta stop. The most immoral, incompetent, and behaviorally unsound and unpredictable President in modern history…. who lies profusely… and you’re justifying all that in exchange for some crazy ill-defined promises from an election campaign that a decent president from either party could have done.
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Doug,
You are not going to like what I have to say next, so prepare yourself……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
In my opinion, Trump is a Godsend compared to the empty suit career politicians we have running our country for the last 40 years.
For Example,
The present illegal immigration has not been addressed in 33 years and your California Representative, who coincidentally has been in office in the same time span still does not believe illegal immigration is a problem even though there are perhaps 25 to 40 million illegal immigrants now in the USA. No one knows for sure because no one wants to find out in the upcoming censers for some reason.
I could go on and on, but frankly, it gets me upset when I think about the folly.
Regards and good will blogging..
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I don’t upset that easily… and certainly not over this kinda thing. Frustrated? Of course.. and it sounds like as much as you are on the other side of the fence (pun intended 🙂
And I could care less about any California politician.. much less Illinois politicians. What happens on a state level is not my focus these days.
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@Doug,
Thanks for bringing up Trump in relation to my post. Using him as an example may help me explain further how steeped the USA has digressed from Christianity disciplines toward paganism.
For Example
Mocking President Trump on late night shows instead of entertainment.
Pride preventing Hillary losers from accepting Trump winning the election and not accepting the Democrat Republic vote decision that Trump is the President and deserves respect of the office of Presidency.
In other words, when presenting different views than him, what ever happened to the greeting. “Respectfully sir, I disagree with your point of view.
The N-Word is an expression of bias and division of races. The same bias is evidence of political bias context of present divisiveness when people call each other Democrat or Republicans.
Halloween steeps children to dress as their favorite hero. After time, they learn bias and dress to mock people off color by blackface makeup standing next to a KKK costume.
Media today is a joke of objective reporting especially about President Trump. All anyone has to do is listen 30 seconds and they can identify the political bias their owners tell them to report or be fired.
Also the owners are making a lot of money by mocking and insert bias same as a sinful troublemaker intriguer does.
Yes Doug, think about how steeped you have become in mocking the President of the USA that you have no concept that it is sinful.
As for how the USA has become steeped in paganism, another example is how we have no reservations of killing a baby in a mother’s womb, similar to the ancient pagan practice of sacrificing a baby to a pagan God.
So steeped, our USA culture no longer can recognize sin, in my opinion.
If interested, check out my previous post link on abortion in relation to paganism.
https://rudymartinka.com/2019/02/01/king-solomon-paganism-or-hedonism-is-now-the-usa-culture-of-life/
Regards and good will blogging.
PS I give up trying to comment on your blog. Switch to WordPress is my advice. You may also not be aware of other comm enters to your blogs articles.
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Ok.. I’ll bite.
First paragraph…
Late night shows mocking the President. Yep.. agreed. That’s mocking and I laugh at every word in order to keep my political sanity. Not sure if that puts me on to the fast track to hell or not.
Second paragraph…
I’m not sure why Conservatives seem to keep dredging up the election and anti-Trumpers denying the results of the election. I honestly don’t see any evidence of that. If you’re an American and believe in our Constitution.. nothing to argue about. Trump won. In fact.. since you mentioned it.. the late night guys NEVER suggest Trump did not win. Now, this isn’t to say that Hillary getting the popular vote win, which means nothing now.. it will come back to haunt him in 2020.
Third paragraph…
Respectfully, sir… no reason to debate this. Honestly, the President himself has set the uncivilized tone.
Fourth paragraph…
Uh… ok.
Fifth paragraph…
Halloween, as practiced by our children, has caused our divisiveness and racial, religious, and social disparity?
Sixth paragraph…
If media is a joke of objective reporting, are we including FOX? More to your point here, respectfully, sir, that everyone in the media business is so hostage to their jobs that they would whore out their positions simply for money at the expense of their own self-esteem? Think back to the day you were working… how much money and job would YOU be willing to surrendering to some boss telling you to be immoral in some manner? Given the thousands wrapped up in media common sense would suggest not everyone has been tainted by your devil.
Seventh paragraph…
See Sixth paragraph remarks. Also consider… if the owners are making lots of money, mocking to their heart’s content, where is all that money coming from? Wait.. does that mean the viewers are just as “sinful”?
Eighth paragraph….
There is NO question that I am human, and therefore a sinner according to most religious doctrines. I prefer to think me and the Almighty have a working arrangement that is between me and him. Also, like Mr. Micheal Wilson earlier, you gentlemen are not defining between mocking and criticizing correctly. I’m steeped in promoting the ills of Trump even being President and with each passing day his rule is getting closer to his day of reckoning. No need for me to mock them man.
Ninth paragraph…
Abortion? I’m not getting in that debate. That’s all your’s.
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Doug,
I will never understand your reasons but thanks for commenting and admitting your are steeped in promoting your opinions of you dissatisfaction that Trump is the voters choice to be President.
Regards and good will blogging. .
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Rudy, we aren’t convincing each other of anything. But here’s my concern.. and I take the high ground on this… this guy has convinced a whole lot of Americans like yourself that he knows what he is doing.. and his base will apparently go to the ends of the the earth to keep him as their leader. It’s one thing to justify having voted for him because of a Hillary-hatred… but to hang with him after two years (so far) of bumbling incompetence.. well, when the dust settles there will be a lot of disappointed Trump Americans who gave their all to the wrong Pied Piper.
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Doug,
The reason he was elected in my opinion is because he had no experience in politics.
He offends people because that is his acquired business style. He is blunt and offensive to some.
I wrote a few posts about why he could be considered a fool according to King Solomon. But think back, for the last 40 years who were the real fools for listening to empty suit politicians that has resulted in our Nation being 22 trillion in debt, at war for 20 years, etc. etc.
I voted for Trump because he was not a politician and my accolades for his actually doing what he promised, even though it offends some people who do not like his style.
Regards and good will blogging.
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@Doug
Do I think Trump knows what he is doing? When we vote for people, we choose one candidate relative to another. H. Clinton knew what she was doing. She probably understands our political system better than Trump, but she works for her self, her own benefit.
Trump has actually tried to keep his promises. When I voted for him, I did not know if he would. He has accomplished wonders in the face of amazing opposition from the news media, Democrats and even Republicans.
How will Trump’s presidency end? I don’t know, but I have reached the point where I worry about your behavior more than I do his.
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Interesting observation and that intrigues me. You worry more of my behavior than Trump’s. Please explain.
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@Doug
Consider Scatterwisdom’s commentary. I think that is enough explanation.
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Guess it’s not so obvious to me. But, ok.
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