Funny how we can believe ourselves to be good people, but forget about the times when we are not very good! I can still hear dear Sister Mary Ellen "Now children, we must always be nice to others. We must behave as ladies and gentlemen at all times. Remember that our Lord loves every one of us so that we will know to love each other, too." With no public school kindergarten classes in our little town, my parents sent me to the Catholic school for kindergarten even though we were protestant.
Just imagine if every minister/priest/rabbi/whatever would teach or preach this message on the next Sabbath! Imagine if every minister/etc. would give a message every Sabbath that we are all of the same race--the human race. Imagine that every minister/etc. teaches their flock that we must live by the golden rule which is taught by every major (& most other) religion(s). Imagine that every minister/etc. taught that we are supposed to be polite to absolutely everybody on the face of the earth, & treat all persons as though they are our family members! Even those who have done wrong would be lovingly corrected & rehabilitated if at all possible, & at the least be treated with dignity & respect when punished. Just imagine . . . preach road love not rage; kindness instead of anger; lovingly respectful tolerance & forgiveness instead of passing bigotry/prejudice on to our children . . .
   Now that I think about it, I learned in kindergarten that I couldn't tell the difference between Catholic folks & not Catholic folks--unless they were wearing certain attire as a nun or priest. Well ok, maybe the Catholic kids were a teensy bit different, they got really cool plastic glow in the dark Jesus statuettes from their Sunday school classes! I got to have one too, cause I went to Kindergarten, which made me really cool, too--especially when I showed the other kids in my family & neighborhood how my little Jesus would glow in the dark when we took it into a closet & shut the door! Maybe we should all make a pact with ourselves & each other to remember that everything we need for world peace we (allegedly) learned in kindergarten! Think about it.