Comment: The caste system is one of the numerous barbaric and ungodly practices that is prevalent in some parts of the world. It started many centuries ago when the world was in gross darkness. (Isaiah 60:2) The people so despised were said to be associates of deities who resided in the vicinity of their shrines and excluded themselves from routine engagements with the larger society. For reverence of the gods, the civil society did not allow close interaction (including marriage) with these associates of the gods. In some cases their ears and fingers were pierced or chopped off for easy identification.
It is ironical that while allegiance to the traditions that gave birth to this system hardly exists today, Satan has kept this evil system alive in some areas and used it to cause disunity as some people who are seen as “descendants of slaves” are prevented from mingling with those regarded as “freeborn”. In this age of enlightenment, of freedom and of equality, it is retrogressive for anyone to be made to feel that way.
St. Paul, addressing the Christians in Rome states: “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another”. (Romans 12:10) King Solomon says, “Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker”. (Proverbs 17:5) Again St. Paul warns: “He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit” – 1 Thessalonians 4:8.