The threat of violence is ever present, and there is no way to determine precisely when it may come crushing down upon you. There are few things more devastating than to have it burned into you that you do not count and that no provisions are made for the literal protection of your person. The disinherited experience the disintegrating effect of contempt.
So much of Jesus’ teaching was meant to allay the fear and despair of his own marginalized and oppressed Jewish audience it is no wonder it has also served as a powerful statement of solidarity with all those who suffer. Jesus’ primary audience for the Sermon on the Mount would have been the “disinherited,” to use the term from the African American author and mystic Howard Thurman (1899–1981).
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