In a radio talk-back session that I listened to recently, there seemed to be conflicting views as to what all people's being created equal actually implied. A young man kept asserting to the panel that he had been born into trouble, was of a minority group, and that the concept of equality was ineffective. He added that he had nothing to live for and had turned to all sorts of remedies for escape.
That people are created equal and free from discrimination is often regarded either as a desirable possibility— a state to be attained sometime in the future—or as an intolerable proposition. And according to today's news it would seem to be very much a remote future possibility instead of an immediate, redeeming, provable solution for intolerance. Generally speaking, attempts to remove inequalities have centered on standardization, with sometimes nebulous results. And this is understandable if equality means only that we are all to be considered the same. Without individual diversity and leadership, the world would be monotonously dull indeed.
The teachings of Christian Science clear up misconceptions that would deny equal status for all. Each of us has a distinct purpose and contribution to make wherever he is, here and now.
