Job 42:3
.......Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand.....
This statement of Job is done by so many and far too often. We are all guilty of having uttered what we did not understand. It's one thing to utter what we don't understand in the form of a question seeking understanding. It's another thing when we utter what we don't understand as fact and cause people to believe that which is not true.
Since I live in one of the confederate states, (Georgia), I have an interest in the discussions regarding confederate flags, monuments, and other representations of racial matters. Whenever I engage in these discussions it does not take long to realize that I may be talking to an individual who is uttering what they do not understand.
When Blacks and Whites debate regarding the confederacy, there is one fact that must be considered. When the Vice President of the Confederacy spoke in 1861, he explained that the confederacy was not intended to support the equality of races as stated in the Constitution. He emphatically said "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
Those who use the Constitution to support their confederate ideology are uttering what they do not understand. The confederacy advocates that Blacks and Whites are not equal which contradicts the Constitution. Support of the confederacy simultaneously supports white supremacy.
"Lord, forgive us for the many times that we have uttered what we did not understand".
