Human beings, by their very definition, offend. Never a day goes by when one person is not offending another. Of course this can be relatively minor offences, but those minor offences often and very do lead onto bigger, more serious offences. There are many people who believe that it is their God-given right to offend - whether those on the receiving end of such abuse like it or not. In America, not only do many people believe that it is in their constitutional right to offend [freedom of speech] but also their God-given right too?

But one has to ask, where does God come into all of this? It seems that the saying of Christ to ‘Love thy brother as thyself’ [in other words, do unto others what you wish to be done to you] does not hold true. What exactly does ‘God-given right’ mean? Does it mean that God gives us the right to offend another?

Were in the Bible does it state such a thing? God is love, justice and mercy. We do any wrong to any other person and we will pay for it…either whilst still alive in this life…or the next life to come. So, as one can clearly see, God’s Name is always being used in the wrong context, the wrong way.

The hypocrisy of all this is that God made us all the same, and we will eventually all die. White or black, red or yellow, or a mixture of all, we are all human beings with feelings. We cry, we laugh, we feel fear and we hate…as well as love. All these things does not differentiate people from each other…they just confirm our humanity and our mortality…especially death.

No human being is above another, whether that be in race colour or creed.. We all fall under the umbrella of humankind, of humanity. Being that the case, we all are mortal, we are born, only to die. Death is the great leveller of us all. Death does not prejudice, it takes us all, human, animal and plant life. Even the stars are subject to death, and how much more brighter do they shine than us?

So, for another human being to insult and offend another, for no other reason other than colour of skin, or race, or creed, or being handicapped in some way, is showing their ignorance about life. Indeed, the reason why people may offend each other is simply to make themselves feel more ‘powerful’.

They hold within themselves a deep-seated hatred of anyone who happens to be the ‘wrong’ colour, or the ‘wrong’ nationality. To make fun of somebody over something like the colour of their skin or indeed their nationality {that they have no control over} is again, ignorance.

Yet those who insult do not, or are seemingly blind to the fact, that all the insults in the world cannot alter the fact, that they are no more better than the one they are insulting. Their blood flows through their veins, they breathe the same air, and they all feel the sun, wind and the rain upon their skin.. Yet somehow by being born a certain race, a certain colour, they deem themselves ‘worthy’ of hurling insults?

No human being has the right to insult another, freedom of speech has enabled us to say what we really feel. But freedom of speech has been abused and hijacked in such a way that it has become the ‘norm’ now to be able to hurl insults at people and terrorise people for no reason at all. People do this knowing that they can say that THEIR freedom of speech if they are challenged in any way is being ‘abused’?

Human beings simply do not have the right to offend others. Governments may make so-called rules and regulations stating otherwise {such as the National Socialist Government of Hitler during the late 1930s 40s} or the racist government of South Africa during Apartheid.

And even in the ‘land of the free’, America, there were many states that had it within their constitutional books that black people should be classed as lower than a dog. The ‘Jim Crow’ laws of the Deep South, for many years, made it - instead of a United States of America, - a ‘Divided States of America’. This was a time in which America went to war with its own citizens, as American blacks fought for the right not to be insulted or abused as they tried to go about their business.

So, at the end of the day insults, whether small or big, can hurt - and no human being has the God-given right to ‘hurt’ or offend anyone.

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