#SinMatters
Y ou see them everywhere. #BlackLivesMatter, #PoliceLivesMatter, #AllLivesMatter, take your pick. On the surface, they are all true, but somehow, the truth is getting lost in the argument. Perhaps, we need another one, #SinMatters. The problem isn’t that people are saying that lives matter, the problem is that many of the people who are saying that lives matter are actually accusing some other group of saying that life of a particular kind doesn’t matter. #BlackLivesMatter because some people felt that police didn’t value the life of black people. This got mixed up with violence against police, so people began saying #PoliceLivesMatter, as a way of accusing people of not valuing the lives of the police. Some felt that people were becoming too focused on one particular group and didn’t see the lives of other people as equally important, so we ended up with #AllLivesMatter. The result is that the racial divide in our country seems to be growing. But what is it that links all of these eve...