Prejudice and Discrimination

Prejudice and Discrimination

Prejudice: 1) an opinion formed without careful thought.2) an

unreasonable or unfair feeling (in favour of, or against something).

Discrimination : 1) to be the difference between. 2) (with favour of,

against ) to treat favourably or unfairly. These are the dictionaries'

definitions of what the two words mean, obviously very briefly.

Different forms of prejudice and discrimination are the underlining of

racism, sexism, ageism, nationalism and more, but these are the key

elements of prejudice and discrimination. All around the world

different people of different religions, race etc are troubled with

these issues everyday against each other and from others, no matter

what culture they are from. However different religions take different

views of prejudice and discrimination and have different ways of

helping the victims of it, and helping the ones that are guilty of it.

Also different religions have different influences in the way of maybe

encouraging it (maybe without knowing) and producing tension between

other religions.

In this essay I propose to answer the question of what are the

teachings of Christianity and Muslim with regard to prejudice and

discrimination, and how do they deal with the situation, also the

question of, 'by putting children into religious schools, are they

encouraging prejudice and discrimination.'

Christians have teachings about prejudice and discrimination, they

are:

Genesis teaches that all people are made "in God's image" and have

equal value.

"There is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between men and

women, you are all one in union with Christ." ...

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...t think that other prejudice like

ageism and nationality is encouraged. However due to recent events

within the church of England, I think that sexuality is a major

problem and that that particular religion is being extremely

prejudice, and therefore teaching it. Also women are not allowed to be

bishops, thus sexism.

An argument for sending children to single faith schools is that they

are, or claim to teach the right ways of living, and that we are all

equals, however this does not seem to be the case.

My personal view is that by sending children to religious schools,

prejudice and discrimination is inevitable and is in fact wrong. It is

unhealthy for people not to mix with others and experience others with

different cultures, religions and beliefs, this causes single minded

clones, which causes victimisation.