Parakalein

I go into a doctors office for treatment and I know that while all doctors were educated and passed a licensing test not all doctors were created equal.  I see a homeless person and I wonder about the story of his life and how he became homeless.  I realize that not all homeless people are equal.  the idea that we are all equal is quite absurd.  We are born into different families some with advantages some with other advantages.  I realize that what is an advantage in some ways can be a disadvantage in other ways.  There are inequities all around us and to blindly say that there are none and that we are all equal is absurd.

At the same time we all have a right and a responsibility to treat each other and be treated by each other with respect and care and we all have an equal and unalienable right to life, liberty. and pursuit of happiness.  We then have to be stewards of assuring all of God's creation has equal opportunities while we are not created equal.  We are all recipients of a body that we did not select, a family that we did not choose, a socioeconomic status that we did no select, and a religious orientation that was handed to us.

Where we are equal is in our rights to liberty, freedom,  and the pursuit of happiness.  Let us serve to help that become true for more people around us because ]we believe in that principle