Discussion»Questions»Humor and Jokes» If someone says to me "Get out of my country" am I wrong when I say it is your heaven too because it is as close to it as you will ever get?
I'd say your answer is neither right nor wrong, but for me it is confusing.
It sounds like the other person is somehow assuming that you don't belong in the country where you live, and has probably made a mistake. If the person is judging where you belong based on some aspect of your appearance, speech or behaviour, they are probably prejudiced and ignorant. Their statement was very rude, and may have been based on an angry reaction about something, or just blind hatred.
Either way, biting back, although tempting and a natural response, is not necessarily the wisest. Biting back in any situation usually tends to escalate hostilities. There are more skilful responses - a wide range of creative and positive ones which can have beneficial effects. Think of how people like Mandela, Ghandi and Martin Luther King dealt with racism.
The phrase, "it is your heaven too" doesn't make sense to me. Is the place where you live a kind of heaven for you? - blissful, wonderful or rewarding in some way?
"because it is as close to it as you will ever get," also doesn't make sense to me. How can anyone guess whether someone else is in heaven, or will get there after death?
I see heaven as someone else's belief about where their spirit might go after they die - if they've led a morally pure life or truly repented.
I wish I could help. I wish somehow we could make all racism and all prejudices disappear from this planet. Unfortunately, that seems not to be very likely with human nature.
So the best that we can do is try to educate people to see that differences don't mean better or less than, and they don't mean someone doesn't belong exactly where they are.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at October 15, 2017 7:14 PM MDT
