Prejudice.

Prejudice is to pre-judge.

i.e. A preconceived opinion not based on reason or actual experience (Online Dictionary).

And prejudice is the basis of the generational war.

Ronald Reagan told Generation X that the Baby-Boomers were "unconscious agents of Satan".

And they used this to prejudge them en masse.

Thus they were able to project their guilt onto the Hippies and claim goodness by default.

This is despite the fact that they called themselves bad and many of them had turned to the devil to win.

But Satan's propaganda is backwards.

The Hippies and Baby-Boomers were innocent.

The fact that their rock stars turned to Satan does not mean that they were evil themselves.

And Judgement is not Biblical in any case.

Jesus said: "Do not judge, and you will not be judged."  Luke 6:37 (NRSV)

This is the basis of scapegoating.

Hitler said that embracing the scapegoat created "moral ease" for the majority.

And this is what they have done.

The German word Shadenfreude means to delight in the misfortunes of others.   

And this evil allowed them to torture those who were cast as the scapegoat.

And this can be seen in our modern world.

Generation X delighted in the demise of the Baby-Boomers and took pleasure in torturing them.

And this is the result of their irrational hate and blame of their parent who they see as the architects of our evil world.

But prejudice has its roots in fear.

Fear of poverty, fear of immorality, fear of punishment.

It is hidden by hypocrisy and psychological dishonesty.

This is modern Fascism.

And it is time for it to end.

(NB: This scapegoating practice also applies to gays and lesbians who are seen as immoral and evil minions of the devil as cast by the Religious Right.)

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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