I remember reading somewhere that according to some accounts Bartholomew, the original one who was a follower of Jesus, sometimes confused with the Apostle Nathaniel, was later in life, after preaching to the heathen of the Mediterranean Sea, skinned alive. His skin was removed from his body while still living, similar to the torture inflicted by the Redskins upon early pioneers. Whether we are descended from him I have no idea. But that is a creepy, devilish thing to try to poke at other people's skin, as if it were wrong to be white or black or any other shade in between. And yet with freckles like mine it happened all the time so why should brown people be surprised if we should point out the crayon color they resemble? I wasn't being mean about it. I just thought it was interesting.
And if the people should decide by election or otherwise that all Christians should be devoured by lions for the entertainment of spectators in the Roman colosseum, would that make it right to skin them alive? And to the later ones also, the Christians brutally murdered, bodies mangled in unspeakable ways, during China's Boxer Rebellion? No, obviously the people can be wrong, wrong, wrong. But whatever. Only God knows why evil is allowed to rear its ugly head now and then, perhaps to help prove that might does not make right or something like that. I don't know everything.
And will worrying about skin color make you even one inch taller? No, obviously not. We see that Adam and Eve became aware of their own uncovered skins after eating the apple. Furs were recommended by God so who are we to argue with the beauty and comfort of leather shoes? Can we go back to the Garden of Eden and pretend that color issues do not exist in this sin-riddled world? No, of course not. No one ever said that affirmative action would solve all skin problems. Yes, I can see why black people would be fixedly in favor of special advantages for their own skin color in perpetuity given the centuries of oppression they endured in past generations. Someone is wanting to argue about affirmative action but I really would prefer to dodge the issue for now as, for one thing, I have no political power to influence these matters and might only get more flack back than I can handle. Yet there is no affirmative action program to fend of these freckle-hating devils, sadly, but perhaps it is just as well that the government is not involved in telling us what skin color we ought to be. It is really none of the government's business. Better to be free than to be have freckle regulations.
