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If you are an American who embraces the spirituality of Jesus, supporting reparations, especially for indigenous Americans and descendants of slaves, is a given. It is simply an essential act to demonstrate dignity to millions of people. Reparations declare that these lives matter.

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America is an undignified disaster. Black people needing to cry out that their lives matter too is a dignity issue. The opioid epidemic gutting the once-thriving blue-collar rust belt flows directly from the desire to escape from an undignified existence. Even the rise of White Nationalism and other hate groups stem, in part, from a quest for dignity. After all, those living in dignity have no need to carry a tiki torch and insist they will not be replaced?

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What makes a dignified society? For those who, like Jesus, embrace the wisdom of the cosmological myths of Genesis, that question undergirds politics. What must a society do to honor universal human dignity? How do we structurally declare to everyone that they belong?

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The greatest misunderstanding when it comes to spirituality is that it is spiritual. Whether you spend your days checking off a task list of good deeds, chasing after a state of zen, building your daily routine around prayer and worship, or just trudging through life hoping for heaven, when our spirituality focuses on the spiritual, we miss the point. We have turned something that is a means to an end, into an end itself.

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Demonstrated dignity is how we, as members of a society and formative voices within society, declare which lives matter. It is also how we participate in the divine creative act and undermine the hell of nothing. Demonstrated dignity brings heaven to earth.

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Just like meritocracy, victimhood is a weapon of shame, a response by our psyches to counter perceived inadequacy while preventing us from healing. While meritocracy allows those who achieve cultural markers of success to celebrate themselves and look down on others, victimhood denies our culpability and points the fingers towards someone else. While meritocracy can only guard a few against shame, victimhood is a strategy everyone can use. This is why, when things go wrong, we all look for someone to blame.

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