French intellectuals after World War II became enraptured by the idealistic vision of communism.
Albert Camus pointed to Stalin writing about how the oppressed became the oppressor.
Once the Christian Church was oppressed by Rome.
Then it became at various times of European history the oppressor.
Even in today’s America people who feel oppressed wish to become the oppressor.
How many people try to live out Jesus’s teachings about dealing with each person with kindness and understanding only judging each by the strength of their character?
He touched people with skin disease. He forgave a criminal. He saved a woman from execution by stoning. He made her accusers go home and ponder their own sins. He made a culturally despised outcast the hero of a story. He healed people in the household of a hated Roman soldier. He taught that unlike the Romans we should be known by how much we can love other humans.
Think upon whom you might wish to be oppressed. Perhaps a little kindness and love will go far toward reconciliation.
Faith Venture 
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