when we define a christian in a positive sense; as in, a 'christian is someone who gives to the poor' what we do is marginalize someone who is unable to give to the poor. what we do is deny the essence of the person and impose a factory-like caricature upon those who might not fit that certain category. this method of defining another human denies the very ontological state of our being as beings. it transforms people into machinations of ideology. what occurs is that we use labels is the … [Read more...]