National Heart Disease Human history proves that laws about justice and equality are needed to regulate sinful behavior. Virtually every country has been guilty of some form of legalized apartheid (discrimination/segregation) by one race against another. Often it is the minority against the majority. Whichever group has the most power rules, or “might makes right.” Apartheid is a disease of every human heart. We naturally want to differentiate, discriminate, segregate, and dominate. It takes something supernatural—conversion—to cause people to repent of the apartheid in their hearts. Only a radical spiritual transformation can bring about permanent racial reconciliation. Therefore, until beliefs are changed, behavioral modification will only be superficial and temporary, regardless of what our laws say. Until God’s
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