Day 386: Mark of Cain
"Mark of Cain" is not really familiar to the ordinary Japanese people, who are not acquainted with the Old Testament.
When Cain killed Abel, God cursed Cain to a life of wandering. But then Cain cried that his own life was in danger, God promised to protect him: “The Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him” .
The note below could be of great help if you do not know this story.
Anyway, the Economist's article titled with this subject tells us that this story and the phrase are one of the common senses, of course in the "Western World".
Some of the Christian organization used it as a justification of slavery and racial segregation, and that has been inherited by some certain types of people in the US.
That is one of the reasons why Trump has been trying to attract the supports from them.
Very interesting concluding sentences from the Economist article.
And “today God’s anguished questions—‘Where is your brother?’ and ‘What have you done?’—still hang in the air like morning mist on the Mississippi River.”
Word of the day
anguished : having or showing extreme physical or mental suffering
Quote of the day
“No one is just one person, you, for example, are both cain and abe”
― José Saramago, Cain
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