QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n Researchers have noted how disgust properties become attached to people and despised groups. The philosopher Martha Nussbaum describes these social forms of disgust:<\/p>\n Throughout history, certain disgust properties–sliminess, bad smell, stickiness, decay, foulness–have repeatedly and monotonously been associated with, indeed, projected onto, groups by reference to whom privileged groups seek to define their superior human status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 1. Read Acts 10. How is social disgust implicated in this story? How was the psychology of disgust (i.e., “unclean”) hampering the mission of the church to take the gospel “into all the world”?<\/p>\n 2. Examine world history through the perspective of disgust. Find examples where disgust properties were attributed to despised groups to justify acts of injustice.<\/p>\n 3. Think about the current social and political debates in America today. Are the categories of disgust still applied to people and groups? Cite examples.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tax Collectors and Sinners<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The Morality of Liberals and Conservatives<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<< Back to Spotlight<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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