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Why would the chosen bond of a marriage covenant be stronger than the given bond of the family we have had since birth? What is it about humanity that demonstrates our fundamental need for relationships with each other, especially that of a husband to a wife and a wife to a husband?
In this text, the book of Genesis demonstrates that it was God's design in his creation of humanity that included the idea that a husband and a wife are two halves of a better whole. God shows this truth to Adam through a vision of Eve as his "other side," an analogy that Adam quickly grasps and one reinforced by the finale of the section, "that is why a mean leaves..."
In the end, this passage reinforces the absolute ontological equality of men and women, for God has created a union of equals, one in which we can both be our spouses' "suitable helper."
At the culmination of Genesis' Creation account, God pauses to explain that his creation of humanity will differ from all the other living things that have come before, for this living thing will be made in the very image of God. What does this mean? The implications are plentiful but they include: (1) We are intimately connected to God, (2) equal to every other human who has ever lived, (3) and qualitatively more important than all the other living things that we have been tasked with stewardship over. In addition, we owe our creativity, delight in beauty, logic, and ethics to the way in which God created us.
I grew up in a county that was 95%+ white, I live today in a county that is 97% white, and yet, I have never heard anyone complain following a dramatic drug bust, armed robbery, rape, or murder about "White on White crime". The same isn't true about the phrase, "Black on Black crime". I've heard it many, many times, from casual use by white people I know, to pundits, provocateurs, and politicians. When I was younger, and ignorant of the actual truth of the matter, I even used the phrase myself, and why not, everybody was saying that "Black on Black crime" was a particularly significant problem. Unfortunately for my past self, and for many people today, the concept of "Black on Black crime" being unique or particularly egregious comes not from crime statistics, but racism. 1. Most crime is committed against one own's racial/ethnic group. Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders 2012-2015 - Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Dept. of Justic
In 2014, 89% of Black murder victims were killed by Black offenders, 82% of White murder victims were killed by White offenders {55% for smaller minority groups, less likely to live in homogeneous neighborhoods, Indian, Asian, or Pacific Islanders} 2014 Crime in the United States report - F.B.I.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2019 crime victimization statistics report shows those who commit violent acts tend to commit them against members of the same race as the offender. Offenders were white in 62% of violent incidents committed against white victims, Black in 70% of incidents committed against Black victims and Hispanic in 45% of incidents committed against Hispanic victims, according to the BJS report. {Crime Victimization, 2018 - Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice}
Why do most violent crimes occur against one's own racial/ethnic group? The answer is simple, most crime is committed within one's own social circle and/or within one's own neighborhood, which leads to the next point. 2. Most Americans (and most people worldwide) live in segregated neighborhoods. The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental - By Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian Magazine "Despite these declines, residential segregation was still higher for African Americans than for the other groups across all measures. Hispanics or Latinos were generally the next most highly segregated, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders, and then American Indians and Alaska Natives, across a majority of the measures." {2000 Census Report} The data proves that school segregation is getting worse - by Alvin Chang, Vox.com
The short cartoon below on racism, segregation, and schools is very helpful in framing the issues.
The short video above explains how modern segregation came to be.
The reasons why America became a very segregated nation post WWII are clear and well documented, it was official Federal Government policy to encourage Whites to move to the suburbs and to ban Blacks and other minorities from joining them. These policies had a lasting impact on minority communities still being felt to this day. {Redlining's legacy: Maps are gone, but the problem hasn't disappeared -by Kristopher J. Brooks, CBS News} In addition to its affect upon crime statistics, segregated neighborhoods have had a massive impact upon public education. In the wake of Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the idea of "separate but equal" school was no longer legal, but outlawing purposeful segregation in the schools hasn't made schools equal. The majority of public schools are funded by property taxes in the neighborhoods in which they reside. Thus segregation has also brought us poor urban schools, primarily minority, and relatively affluent suburban/rural schools, primarily White.
3. Black crime rates are comparable to White crime rates, incarceration rates are not.
The conclusions about the Criminal Justice System below are from the Sentencing Project's 2018 report, each claim has a footnote in the article for those wishing to judge the data for themselves. While somewhat higher crime rates for Blacks and Latinos correlates well with higher poverty rates (Poor Whites commit crimes at higher rates than affluent ones, poverty rates are higher in minority communities), the disparities in how those crime are dealt with by the Justice System based on the race of the offender, cannot be ignored. Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System - The Sentencing Project More than one in four people arrested for drug law violations in 2015 was black, although drug use rates do not differ substantially by race and ethnicity and drug users generally purchase drugs from people of the same race or ethnicity. For example, the ACLU found that blacks were 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites in 2010, even though their rate of marijuana usage was comparable. African Americans were incarcerated in local jails at a rate 3.5 times that of non-Hispanic whites in 2016. Pretrial detention has been shown to increase the odds of conviction, and people who are detained awaiting trial are also more likely to accept less favorable plea deals, to be sentenced to prison, and to receive longer sentences. Seventy percent of pretrial releases require money bond, an especially high hurdle for low-income defendants, who are disproportionately people of color. Although African Americans and Latinos comprise 29% of the U.S. population, they make up 57% of the U.S. prison population. This results in imprisonment rates for African-American and Hispanic adults that are 5.9 and 3.1 times the rate for white adults, respectively—and at far higher levels in some states. Of the 277,000 people imprisoned nationwide for a drug offense, over half (56%) are African American or Latino. Nearly half (48%) of the 206,000 people serving life and “virtual life” prison sentences are African American and another 15% are Latino. Prosecutors are more likely to charge people of color with crimes that carry heavier sentences than whites. Federal prosecutors, for example, are twice as likely to charge African Americans with offenses that carry a mandatory minimum sentence than similarly situated whites. State prosecutors are also more likely to charge black rather than similar white defendants under habitual offender laws. Disenfranchisement patterns have also reflected the dramatic growth and disproportionate impact of criminal convictions. A record 6.1 million Americans were forbidden from voting because of their felony record in 2016, rising from 1.2 million in 1976. Felony disenfranchisement rates for voting-age African Americans reached 7.4% in 2016—four times the rate of non-African Americans (1.8%). In three states, more than one in five voting-age African Americans is disenfranchised: Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The majority of disenfranchised Americans are living in their communities, having fully completed their sentences or remaining supervised while on probation or parole.
Read the whole report from the Sentencing Project, the picture it paints is bone chilling, as each of these statistics represents real people whose lives have been affected by the racial inequities in the American Criminal Justice System. Also, look at the recommendations they make for addressing this disparity, they are, at the very least, worth consideration and discussion.
The video by Phil Vischer touches on the topics addressed here, and more, please watch both of them.
4. If your explanation crime statistics, or the wage and wealth gap in America between Black and White families involves characteristics inherent to Black DNA, Black intelligence, or Black culture, that is racism.
These are only 4 pieces of a large and complicated puzzle. To understand the past and present of racial issues in America is no small task, to advocate for policies and laws that will help rather than hurt, likewise requires both a breadth and depth of understanding. What we cannot sustain as a society, and especially as an American Church, is a continuation of racist attitudes that offer simplistic explanations of racial inferiority devoid of connection to reality. To my fellow White American Christians: Stop pretending that it is 'their' problem and not our problem, stop blaming 'them' instead of looking to see how we can help.
"There but for the grace of God, go I" was famously said in the 16th century by the Englishman John Bradford as he watched condemned prisoners being led to the gallows. Bradford understood that Grace played a far more important role in the outcomes of our lives than we were willing to admit, that it is far less our merit that determines the road we travel than our pride would claim. Human beings are the same, not matter what they look like on the outside. If the shoe were on the other foot, if we were the minority facing a history of oppression and injustice and an ongoing legacy of discriminatory policies forcing us to walk uphill, how would we be any different? To think our thoughts, attitudes, and actions would be different is not only to ignore human nature, but to indulge in racism.
Having expressed the variety of gifts given by the Spirit to the Church (local and universal), Paul next emphasizes the unity within that church, as one body made up of many parts. The analogy emphasizes both the need for each part to be connected to the body, and the need for the body to have all its parts both connected and functioning properly in order to be healthy. Thus the church needs to be unified, a status that is much easier when each part (person) within it feels both welcome and appreciated.
I spend a lot of time and energy trying to convince people of their need to be a part of a church. I know the absolute necessity of participation in the body of Christ, both for Christians and potential converts. And yet, we all know that there are times when a particular church is doing more harm than good when it meets on Sunday. Our first thought would revolve around places where heresy is being preached, where the Truth is absent, and thus people are being led astray from the Gospel. The Apostle Paul certainly has harsh words for such people/places, but in this particular passage it is not theology but behavior that concerns Paul, and not that during the church service itself but rather at the meal which proceeded it at the church of Corinth. That's right, it was the church potluck which threatened to tear asunder a church. How can a communal meal be the source of such divisions? At Corinth the rich were treating the meal as a private affair, bringing fine food for themselves and not sharing, while the poor went hungry. In other words, they were acting as if the people whom they were outside of the Church had anything to do with who they were in Christ (as if wealth/class matter before God). In doing so, the worship service that followed this travesty was in effect null and void; the gathering together of God's people for worship was doing more harm than good.
Are we, as a church (or Church) in any way guilty of such sacrilege?
With the horror of at least 49 people killed by multiple gunmen at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, we are confronted with the danger to civil society of Nationalism and Supremacy movements, both within a given society and in the geo-political sphere between nations. And while both Nationalism and racial/ethnic/religious Supremacy movements have at times been ascendant around the globe throughout human history, with horrific results, it remains imperative that the Church purge itself of any such sympathies, rejecting them utterly.
Why is any form of Nationalism or Supremacy an anathema to the Church? Simply put, they are 100% incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The only way for humanity to approach God is through humility. If we cannot let go of the delusion that we can please God on our own, we will never accept that Jesus Christ died on our behalf, that he accomplished what we never could, and that our only hope is to accept his finished work on our behalf by faith through grace. We can only approach God by abandoning any pretext that there is anything about ourselves worthy of God. Not our ethnicity, not our nationality, not our gender, not our sexual orientation, not our skills or talents, not our job, not our riches, not our power or fame. Nothing about us impresses God, for we are all alike lost sinners in need of God's grace. There is no room for pride at the foot of the Cross. There is no room for considering one type of person better, or worse, than another. If we resist the call to bow our knee before God, we will remain apart from the saving grace offered by God.
How then can one person, or type of person, be better than others before God? We may not look exactly alike, and we may see many things differently, but standing before God there is absolutely no difference; we are all equally hopeless in the face of God's perfect holiness.
What hope then do we have, if nothing of ourselves pleases God? We can indeed be saved, not by anything that we are, or have done, but only when we have been clothed with Christ and transformed by the Holy Spirit. This will not result in a spirit of superiority, but a servant's heart filled with gratitude and dedication to helping others find the grace we have received from God.
Murder is a direct insult to God who gives life, a horrendous crime whatever the motive. To kill in the name of national or ethnic superiority is an even great abomination, for it also insults the willing sacrifice of Jesus and his call to share the Gospel with all nations. Nationalism and/or Supremacy has no place in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and it must have no place among those who follow him, for those who embrace and advocate such ideas are not misguided, they remain apart from God's saving grace and transforming power; they are evil.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV) 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
Galatians 3:26-28 (NIV) 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Colossians 3:11-14 (NIV) 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
The slang phrase, "stay in your lane" has recently been invoked by the NRA to tell doctors that their opinion (in reality, bloody and often horrific expertise) is unwelcome in the controversial debate in America regarding gun control. {Washington Post 11/11/18 - ‘Being silenced is not acceptable’: Doctors express outrage after NRA tells them ‘to stay in their lane’} Rather than weigh in on the topic of gun control, a topic I have already bemoaned regarding its vitriol and lack of civil discourse {If I say anything about guns}, let me instead pontificate a bit about the phrase itself, "stay in your lane". It should seem obvious that when such a phrase is used to try to keep women or minorities, for example, in "their place", that it blatantly violates a Christian worldview based upon Biblical principles. After all, the Word of God takes pains to point out repeatedly that from God's perspective, "there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28, NIV) There is no such thing as a legitimate "place" that belongs to men, or to women, to any ethnic or racial group, to the rich or the poor, to citizens or non-citizens, or any other such distinction. That such "places" do indeed exist in both the minds of many, in the rules and regulations of society and institutions, and is even enshrined in laws, is a testament to the fallen nature of humanity and our endless capacity to divide each other in order to lessen our God-given equality and God-ordained responsibility toward our fellow human beings.
That man-made groupings used to belittle or devalue other people ought to be anathema to the people of God is illustrated by Jesus choosing to make the hero of one of his parables (the Good Samaritan Lk. 10:25-37) and the recipients of his healing (The centurion's servant Mt. 8:5-13, the Canaanite woman's daughter Mt. 15:21-28) be foreigners whom the self-righteous of his day would have certainly told to "stay in their lane" and away from the Messiah. Jesus didn't stop with demonstrating God's love for people beyond the Chosen People in terms of race, he also made sure to touch lepers when he healed them, breaking a powerful taboo in the process. For Jesus, nobody was out of bounds, nobody was a lost cause.
Beyond the affront to Biblical principles of equality, the use of "stay in your lane" also exhibits a gross misunderstanding of where problems come from in society and how they can be mitigated. Societal problems, whether gun violence, drug abuse, prostitution, gambling, or a host of others, do not exist in a vacuum, do not affect only those involved in them, and cannot be lessened without the help of more than those directly involved with them. Should doctors be involved in gun violence issues? Yes. Should teachers be involved in the opioid crisis? Yes. Should ministers be involved in homelessness? Yes. Why? Because we are all created in the image of God, we have all been given the task of combating evil in our midst, and while we hold out no hope that the world's ills can be "solved" while humanity remains in rebellion against God, we do certainly believe that we can and must work together to shine the light in the darkness.
I, as an ordained minister, will not "stay in my lane", whatever that is supposed to be. I will also not tell non-ministers that they have no business commenting on the affairs of the Church, on theology, or on ministerial ethics. I am willing to, and I ought to be willing to, listen to the laity of the church, to involve them in ministry, and to heed both their advice and their warnings concerning my ministry. Arrogance is not an option, dismissal of the value of the contributions that can be made by the overlooked or the outcasts is not an option. I am a shepherd of the sheep, an honor and a burden, but I am also no more than another worker in the field of the Lord.
We as a society face daunting challenges, this is no more nor no less true today than it has been for thousands of years. If we are to make a positive difference in confronting these challenges, if we are to help those in need and thwart those intent upon evil, we must do so united, willing to accept help where it can be found, willing to give help wherever we can. There is no room for "lanes" in the Church of Jesus Christ, so don't worry about staying in one.
Having already told the people of the church at Colossae of the need to "put to death" their earthly nature with all of its vices, now Paul advocates for the virtues that the people of God must embrace as they disavow vice: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. As a precursor to this list, Paul reminds the church that "here", that is, in Christ, all of the distinctions and categories by which people divide themselves into subgroups no longer apply, for "Christ is all, and is in all."
In addition to the need to develop and employ the virtues listed by Paul, a significant challenge, but one God's people can achieve through the Spirit, we are also told of the need to pursue these virtues while at the same time forgiving each other when we fail. Lastly, and most importantly, is the need to "put on" love over all of these efforts, binding them together and leading to harmony.
*As a bonus, this sermon begins with an illustration about brotherly love drawn from the experience of the 9 members of the Fellowship in Tolkien's LOTR.*
"Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised,barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all." - Colossians 3:11 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." - Galatians 3:28
During her television program on Wednesday night, Fox News host Laura Ingraham said the following: "The America we know and love doesn't exist anymore,massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don't like." Ingraham said "this is related to both illegal and legal immigration."
Putting the politics of legal and illegal immigration aside, the comments by Laura Ingraham are said to be resonating with many Americans who self-identify as Christians, but they shouldn't be. The vast majority of those coming to America from Latin or South America are in fact Christians, many of them more devout and committed to their faith than those living prosperously in America. In that case, they are brothers and sisters in Christ of those who claim to be his followers. It should not matter, at all, to a Christian what race or ethnicity a fellow Christian belongs to, what language he/she speaks, or what nation he/she was born in, for the shared bond of brotherhood is a spiritual one and a mutual experience of forgiveness of sins through the grace of God.
In the end, those who claim to follow Christ, and yet look upon fellow Christians, who happen to look different than we do, as an "other" who are a "plague" of "vermin" threatening to "infest" America (and yes, such language is far to commonplace, and becoming more mainstream), have a far bigger problem than their politics. For those who judge others based upon their outside appearance are rejecting the explicit teaching of the Gospel, rejecting the Lordship of Jesus Christ over the whole earth (and not just one nation or ethnic group), and allowing hatred to have a place in their hearts. In other words, they are in rebellion against God. Racism among Christians, or those claiming to be Christians, is a cancer, and a deadly one at that. There is no need to sugarcoat this, it is a sin for any Christian to reject a fellow Christian because they don't look like them (or talk like them). I have no idea if Laura Ingraham is a true follower of Jesus Christ (not my place to sit in judgment on that question), but I do know that those who applaud her fear of Christians (many of them asylum seekers or refugees) who don't look like "us", relegating these human being created in the image of God and for whom Christ died upon the cross, to the category of "them" and styling "them" as a threat, will answer to God one day for rejecting the teaching of the Word of God, "Christ is all, and is in all."
Much is being made, globally, of the rise once again of nationalism after a lull following the end of the Cold War. "America First" is a cry being echoed, in altered form of course, in England, France, Germany, and a host of other countries. The sense that we're in this together is being challenged by the cry of every man for himself. An example of this tendency in action is the ongoing controversy in Gdansk, Poland regarding the WWII museum set to open next month. This museum was designed years ago to focus upon the civilian suffering, worldwide, that WWII caused. Nationalist Polish politicians, however, want this global focus scrapped in favor of a museum that focuses on the heroics of the Polish army and resistance. Instead of a museum that reveals the horrors of nationalist wars, they would have a museum that glories in the futile effort of the Poles to withstand the Nazis and Soviets at the same time. The second museum isn't a bad idea, per se, the story of what happened in Poland during WWII, to Jews and Poles alike, needs to be told, but the rationale behind the animosity toward the original idea is a telling example of why nationalism can never be compatible with Christianity. The foundation of nationalism is the belief that our people are worth more than their people. It is a clear "us" vs. "them" mentality that ultimately devalues the lives of people living beyond our borders. Those wanting to change the museum in Gdansk believe that Polish lives today, and the tragedy of lost Polish lives in WWII, carry more value than those of people elsewhere. The ideology of the Nazis is simply this idea taken to its extreme form.
The Christian must reject the claim of nationalism that his life, or the life of people like him, have a greater value than those of a person who happened to be born elsewhere. Paul makes the Christian ideal of equality clear in Galatians 3:28 when he writes, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all on in Christ Jesus." Our ancestors failed to heed this command in the word of God, and willingly marched off to war, generation after generation, to seek national aggrandizement at the expense of their neighbors. Humanity ought to have learned the horror of going down this road before, WWI and WWII should have been enough of a lesson, but humanity doesn't change, and one generation's call to "never forget" fades into the background as demagogues of a new generation seek power through nationalist grievances. It may be inevitable that nationalist forces claim supremacy for "us" over "them", but Christians, those who take seriously the Word of God, must reject this call, always.
The following quote from John Calvin (Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 7, section 6) illustrates our duty as disciples of Jesus Christ. In light of the anger and vitriol on social media by Christian who should not be acting in that way, this reminder of what our Lord requires from us is certainly needed. Brotherly Kindness is not optional. Moreover, that we may not weary in well-doing (as would otherwise forthwith and infallibly be the case), we must add the other quality in the Apostle’s enumeration, “Charity suffiereth long, and is kind, is not easily provoked,” (1 Cor. 13:4). The Lord enjoins us to do good to all without exception, though the greater part, if estimated by their own merit, are most unworthy of it. But Scripture subjoins a most excellent reason, when it tells us that we are not to look to what men in themselves deserve, but to attend to the image of God, which exists in all, and to which we owe all honour and love. But in those who are of the household of faith, the same rule is to be more carefully observed, inasmuch as that image is renewed and restored in them by the Spirit of Christ. Therefore, whoever be the man that is presented to you as needing your assistance, you have no ground for declining to give it to him. Say he is a stranger. The Lord has given him a mark which ought to be familiar to you: for which reason he forbids you to despise your own flesh (Gal. 6:10). Say he is mean and of no consideration. The Lord points him out as one whom he has distinguished by the lustre of his own image (Isaiah 58:7). Say that you are bound to him by no ties of duty. The Lord has substituted him as it were into his own place, that in him you may recognize the many great obligations under which the Lord has laid you to himself. Say that he is unworthy of your least exertion on his account; but the image of God, by which he is recommended to you, is worthy of yourself and all your exertions. But if he not only merits no good, but has provoked you by injury and mischief, still this is no good reason why you should not embrace him in love, and visit him with offices of love. He has deserved very differently from me, you will say. But what has the Lord deserved? Whatever injury he has done you, when he enjoins you to forgive him, he certainly means that it should be imputed to himself. In this way only we attain to what is not to say difficult but altogether against nature, to love those that hate us, render good for evil, and blessing for cursing, remembering that we are not to reflect on the wickedness of men, but look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, should by its beauty and dignity allure us to love and embrace them. - John Calvin.
Favoritism, and its ugly flip-side, discrimination, is a facet of life we all deal with. There are endless reasons why someone or some group of people might be shown favoritism or be discriminated against, all of which are unacceptable for the people of God. The basis of our relationship with God is grace, unmerited favor, given to us freely by God. How can we turn around and treat other people as if their poverty, race, gender, age, or any other factor makes them less deserving of the kindness we are supposed to show all people?
The example that James focuses upon is favoritism shown to someone with wealth coupled with disregard shown to someone who is poor. The passage reminds us of the false promises of wealth, fame, power, and other pursuits that pull us away from the fruit of the spirit by exalting pride and pushing people away from a humble pursuit of God.
In the end, the Church needs to be a place where favoritism and discrimination are unknown. The doors need to be open for all to come and hear the Gospel's call to repentance and promise of forgiveness, and everyone who walks through them needs to be treated like God treated us, as a lost child coming home to a Father's tear filled embrace.
This most famous saying of Jesus is an oft misunderstood moral obligation that goes far beyond the typical requirement of laws to do no wrong. Instead, Jesus teaches his followers that they must actively interact with others according to his standard of righteous living as exemplified by the command to "love your enemies". Instead of seeking preferential treatment for ourselves, we must be the servant of all. Instead of indulging in favoritism, we must treat everyone as equals and show to each person in our lives the grace that God has given to us. The example of Christ is paramount here: he became a servant that he might save everyone who believes. We too must adopt the attitude of a servant, only then will we truly be able to "do to others as you would have them do to you."
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