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Dictation: The simple diagrams merely represent some general belief systems from the standpoint of “moral values.” Your ideas of good and evil affect not only your behavior with others, but your activity in a community and in the world at large.
Many believe — using the first diagram — that it is “good” and morally superior to be Christian, white, wealthy and in excellent health. Now, though this does not appear in the diagram, the word “male” can also be added to the list of preferred attributes.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
Here we have a system of belief in which it is wrong to be white, American, or wealthy, or even at all well-off in financial terms. All of the distortions in Christianity are apparent, where the first group is blind to them, of course. Here, though, wealth and a white skin are not only bad, but obvious symptoms of moral deterioration. If the first system of beliefs sees money and goods as a sign of God’s blessing, the second group views material possessions as evidence of spiritual decay.
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