Maryknoll Argument Analysis

A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay that tied into the SLE of being a Committed Catholic where I highlighted the violence in racism and why we shouldn’t be racist to one another. I wrote it for the Maryknoll Essay contest, which called students, “to take a clear stand for creative and active nonviolence and against all forms of violence.” The SLE bullet points that I thought most tied into this essay were understanding and being able to explain Catholic beliefs and being able to live as Jesus taught us. When re-reading this essay, I noticed that these bullet points carried some relevance with the points that I was trying to get across, further advancing and proving my argument as true, making it obvious how my thesis tied into this SLE. The purpose of this essay contest was to write an essay that cited examples of violence and what actions …show more content…
The saddest thing about racism is that is continues on when children are taught that it’s okay. When a parent teaches a child that racism is okay, they contribute to the fact that the child will grow up believing in the morality of something that completely lacks morality. God doesn’t treat us with favoritism, and because of this, the Bible puts down discrimination on these grounds by saying that you should love your neighbor as you would yourself, and as such, forms of racism are an affront to what Jesus died for on the cross. In my essay, I spoke about how racism holds us back. Jesus teaches us that we should love each other as he loves us and that we should do to others as we would do to him, so we should put aside our prejudices and move forward as one race. Together, we make up one human race consisting of different ethnicities, but if we’re too busy with our squabbles, we won’t be able to step forward together when we need to the most. In conclusion, racism had been a plague on humanity that we should work towards