Bigotry is the subconscious assumption that power is virtue and powerlessness is sin.

Like all subconscious forces which create sin, bigotry is a manifestation of the one underlying force—the desire to dominate. It has the same basic characteristics. This means it is in conflict with objective reality rather than aligned upon it.

There are always conflicts between corrupt persons with power and powerless persons. The primary reason is because sin falls first and foremost upon powerless persons. Even if the victims do not react, and even if the victims do not realize they have been victimized, the perpetrators know they victimized the victims; and therefore, they know (at least subconsciously) that the have sin to account for. They try to undo the truth by degrading the victims, such as pretending that the victims needed to be sinned against. The perpetrators add scandal and lies to their sin attempting to caste their victims into the frame of needing to be sinned against.

A model example of bigorty (and all other sin) was Nazism. Being winners made Nazis so superior that they had a right to murder everyone else. Being losers made the victims of the Nazis unworthy of living. Even two million Russians were murdered in Nazi death camps and hated as being unworthy of living. The only test of worthiness to the Nazis was their power.

All sin is group thought. No one sins on their own. Their sin must be reinforced by the corruptions in other persons to create the psychological encouragement needed to put themselves in conflict with truth. What this means is that there are other like-minded persons who bigots are trying to convince.

For these reasons, there is an underlying scandal to bigotry. The powerless nobodies at the bottom of society are perpetually degraded and cast into a frame of being the ones who are corrupt and causing the problems. Therefore, it is supposedly necessary for the victims to change. But the victims did nothing wrong, and there is nothing they can change beyond supporting the corruption.

In scandalizing their victims, perpetrators of injustice make a mockery of objective reality. But the persons being convinced do not look at the objective realities; instead they look at the status and assume the victims are the ones who need to change.

This set of conditions makes scandal a lot easier to promote than it should be. Powerless persons are scandalized to death for doing nothing wrong. Instead of the persons who hear the scandal saying they need objective evidence, they pick up scandals and perpetuate them because of their bigotry.

This pattern transforms into a noble social habit of fixing the nobodies. Nobodies have to become like the somebodies or die in a pit. Elitists and bigots are extremely self-righteous in accusing or attempting to fix the nobodies. Their standards of measurement are not on objective reality but upon who it is that needs to change. If there is a conflict, the question is not who is the cause and what did they do but whether the victims are going to conform to the liking of the perpetrators. It seems self-evident that if there is a conflict the nobodies should change to the satisfaction of the somebodies rather than the somebodies changing to the satisfaction of the nobodies.

Christ often focussed on this conflict. He virtually praised the nobodies and condemned the somebodies. The "sermon on the mount" (Mat 5-7) is page after page of praising the nobodies and condemning the somebodies. Bigots (read conservative Christians) assume that Christ was being so big hearted that he wanted to share his love with guilty, worthless bums, about like a nun going onto death row and marrying a murderer. Bigots also like to lie to themselves. Christ said the nobodies are more righteous, innocent and worthy than the somebodies. This situation is close enough to a truism to generalize it in theology, as in the sermon on the mount.

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