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A Christian
Approach to Racism Joseph Morecrajt III
Jj I have despised the claim oj my 'male or jemale slaves
'lvhen they filed a complaint against me, what then could
I do when God arises, and when He calls me to account,
what 'lvill I anS'lver I-lim? Did not lie who made me in the
womb 'make hirn, and the same onejashion us in the womb?
Job 31:13-15
Although a rich and powerful
man in the East, Job did not
abuse-other human beings. He
treated everybody with dignity,
respect, courtesy, compassion
and justice. Although he
understood that people differ,
that some are superiors and
others inferiors in office,
talents, gifts, strengths, and
the like, he believed that all
people are equal before the
Law of God that judges all
people justly and "blindly,"
i.e., without regard for race,
sex or status. People were not
things to be used by him, but
people created in the image of
God to be respected. He would
even allow his slaves, if there
ever had a complaint against
him, to take him to court to
adjudicate their claim. He held
this position for two reasons.
First, if he despises his slaves'
case against him, what will he
do when God arises and enters
into judgment with him who is
God's inferior? Second, both
slaves and masters are created
by the same God, in the same
manner of birth, through the
same human means, therefore,
slaves and masters are
substantially "brothers" with
equal accountability before the
Law of God. To declare and
maintain his integrity, which
was under assault by three of
his friends, who were really
his tormentors, Job took a vow
swearing to his just treatment
of others. He said, in effect:
"May God rise and judge me,
if I have treated other human
beings as less than they are:
the image of God. May God
rise up against me, if I ever
see those who are in lower
places of power and wealth and
productivity, as created inferior
to me and to be treated by
me as if they were physically,
spiritually, intellectually and
socially inferior to me. May
God rise up against me if I
ever become a racist. May God
judge me if I ever discriminate
against another human being
because of the color of his
skin. May God judge me if I
do not regard others as more
important than myself, and
if I look out only for my own
personal interests, and not for
the interests of others."
INFAMOUS RACISTS
This brings us to the subject
of racism, i.e., discrimination
based on race with the belief
in the supremacy of one race
over all others that are seen as
inferior
1
. Influential racists
of the past two centuries
include such infamous people
as Thomas Malthus
2
, Charles
Darwin
J
, Adolph Hitler and
Margaret Sanger4 .. Thoma.s
Malthus, "whose mathematical
theories convinced an entire
generation of scientists,
intellectuals and social
reformers that the world was
facing an imminent economic
crisis caused by unchecked
human fertility," believed that
"if man Was to survive, men
would have to be sacrificed ...
the materially poor, the
spiritually diseased, the racially
inferior, and the mentally
incompetent would have to
be eliminated." The majority
of his disciples felt that the
solution had to be genetic,
i.e., the elimination of "bad
racial stocks" by "selective
breeding, eugenic re patterning
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and orani0111etrio speoifioity,"
and "through segregation,
sterilization, birth oontrol
and abortion ... to winnow the
'lower' and 'inferior' races out
of the populations. "Charles
Darwin took Malthus a step
further. With his worldview
based on the survival of the
fittest, Darwin and his followers
saw the responsibility of man
oolleotively to assist and guide
"the forward progress of the
evolutionary asoent," seeing
as the leading obstacle to
this progress "the n1indless
interference of Christian
bleeding-hearts" who would
"sustain the weak and
inferior races" longer than
"their natural due."6 In 1972,
another darwinist, Irving
Thalberg, in an article in THE
MONIST, entitled, "Visceral
Racisn1," (Vol. 56, No.1, p.
44), stated "soientifically"
that "negroid h01110 sapiens
evolved n1uoh later, and from
different sub sapiens anoestors,
than Caucasoids; and that
the resulting differences in
Negroid and Cauoasoid braiu
n10rphology deten11ine such
things as sohool aohievement
and orin1e rates.
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"Adolph Hitler
"adopted the ideas of Malthus
in a wholesale fashion. His
exten11inative 'final solution,'
his ooeroive abortion progranl
in Poland, Yugoslavia and
Czeohoslovakia ... all eohoed
the Malthusian oall to 'rid the
earth of dysgenio peoples by
whatever l11eans available."8
"Margaret Sangel', the founder
of Planned Parenthood, "the
world's oldest, largest and best-
organized provider of abortion
and birth oontrol services,"
was also greatly influenoed by
Malthus. She believed that the
"inferior raoes" were aotually
Mahing the Nations Oh1'ist's Disciples
"hunlall weeds" and a "111enaoe
to oivilization," and that the
solution was "to eliIninate the
[raoial] stooks," that were 1110St
detriI11ental to the future of
the white raoe and the world,
by l11eans of abortion, eto. She
said, "the l110st l11eroiful thing
that a large family oan do to
one of its infant l11el11bers
is to kill it."9 To this day
Sanger's organization, Planned
Parenthood is "forever devising
new plans to penetrate blaol{,
Hispanio, and Third-World
oonll11unities with its orippling
n1essage of eugenio raoisl11."10 It
should be observed that raoisnl
and abortion appear together!
RACISM AS HERESY
First, raoism is a denial of the
faot that "the ultin1ate raoial
issue of mankind is the issue
of oovenant headship," Ron1ans
5:12f.11 All hUl11an beings
are represented by AdaI11 as
their oovenant head or by
Jesus Christ, the Last Adal11,
reoeiving the oonsequenoes
of the aotions of their
representatives. This n1eans
that all people belong either
to the raoe of the depraved,
whose head is Adal11, or to the
raoe of the redeel11ed, whose
head is Christ. All other raoial
differenoes are insignifioant
in the light of this one and
only raoial issue of ultiI11ate
iI11portanoe. Vvithin the raoe
of the depraved and the raoe
of the redeel11ed, inter-raoial
n1arriages l11ay take plaoe, but
no l11arriages are to take plaoe
between meillbers of the raoe
of the depraved and the raoe
of the redeel11ed, all "unequal
yoking" of believer and
unbeliever is forbidden by the
Word of God. Seoond, it is the
A Ohristian Approach to
reintroduotion of raoisn1 into
the dootrine of justifioation by
faith in Christ alone regardless
of ethnio origin-For you are
all sons of God through faith
in Christ Jesus. For all of you
who were baptized into Christ
have clothed yourself with
Christ. There is neither Jew
nor Greek, there is neither slave
nor free l11an, there is neither
nlale nor feluale; for you are
all one in Christ Jesus. And if
you belong to Christ, then you
are AbrahaI11's offspring, heirs
aooording to pron1ise, Galatians
3:26-29.Paul had to rebuke
Peter by naI11e for his Jewish
raoism that was interfering
with and 0011lprOn1ising his
preaohing of the gospel, whioh
is not by raoe, even the Jewish
raoe, but by graoe through
faith in Christ alone totally
apart frol11 ethnio origins-But
when Cephas [Peter] oan1e
to Antiooh, I opposed hiI11
to his faoe, beoause he stood
oondenlned. For prior to the
ootning of oertain 111en fron1
JaI11eS, he used to eat with the
Gentiles; but when they oanle,
he began to withdraw and hold
hiI11self aloof, fearing the party
of the oiroumoision. And the
rest of the Jews joined hin1 in
hypoorisy, with the result that
even Barnabas was oarried
away by their hypoorisy. But
when I saw that they were
not straightforward about the
truth of the gospel, I said to
Cephas in the presenoe of all,
"If you, being a Jew, live like
the Gentiles and not like the
Jews, how is it that you o0111pel
the Gentiles to live like Jews?
We are Jews by nature, and
not sinners frol11 aI110ng the
Gentiles; nevertheless knowing
that a n1an is not justified
by the works of the Law but
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through faith iIi Christ Jesus,
even we have believed in Christ
Jesus, that we may be justified
by faith in Christ, and not by
the works of the Law; since by
the works of the Law shall no
flesh be justified," Galatians
2:11-16. Paul's point is a
powerful one: what ultimately
defines a person is not his race
but his relationship to Jesus
Christ, and any interjection
of racism in our thinking or
behavior blurs that central fact
of the gospel. Third, racism is
a contradiction of the doctrine
of the unity and catholiCity of
the church, and is therefore
destructive to the communion
of believers in the church-
walk in a manner worthy of the
calling with which you have
been called, with all humility
and gentleness, with patience,
showing forbearance to one
another in love, being diligent
to preserve the unity of the
Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one
Spirit, just as also you were
called in one hope of your
calling; one Lord, one faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of
all who is over all and through
all and in all, Ephesians 4:1-6.
In Acts 15, the great presbytery
at Jerusalem, made up of
representatives from a variety
of congregations, and under
the gUidance of the Holy Spirit,
made several rulings pertinent
to racism. (1). Gentile converts,
which were of different races
than Jewish Christians were
to be received into the church
on equal terms and accepted
as full and equal partners in
salvation. (2). It would be an
infringement of the Christian's
newly found freedom in Christ
to enforce Jewish cultural,
ceremonial and ethnic
distinctions upon the Gentile
Christians, such as requiring
them to be circumcised.
Gentile Christians were not
to be segregated from Jewish
Christians, nor was integration
between the two to be forced by
making the Gentile Christians
adopt the Jewishness of the
Jewish Christians. Not long
after this presbytery made
its pronouncements aimed at
removing racial discrimination
and a false gospel from the
church, the church of Christ-
neither Jew nor Greek-became
the target of unconverted Jews
and unconverted Gentiles
alike, who hated it with equal
intensity.
The church of Christ is a
brotherhood, a new race,
a communion of believers
regardless of sex, race, status
or nationality. And nothing
must be allowed to disrupt or
spoil that communion. Racism
rips it apart. Fourth, racism
is antithetical to the intention
of Christ in His death on the
cross. It is a working against
what Christ intended to
accomplish by His death. He
is the King of kings and the
Lamb of God that takes away
the sins of the world. By His
shed blood He has purchased
a people for God from every
tribe, tongue and people and
nation, Revelation 5:9. By the
preaching of the gospel, He
will lead all the nations ... and
many people to stream into
His kingdom, Isaiah 2:3. All
the families of the nations will
worship before [ Christ], for the
kingdom is the Lord's and He
rules over the nations, Psalm
22:27,28. All the way back in
the time of the patriarchs, God
promised them that God would
make "the seed of Abraham" a
company of peoples, Genesis
28:3, i.e., a congregation
comprised of many ethnic
groups. As John said in
Revelation 7:9-10-After these
things I looked, and behold, a
great multitude, which no one
could count, from every nation
and all tribes and peoples and
tongues, standing before the
throne and before the Lamb,
clothed in white robes, and
palm branches were in their
hands; and they cry out with a
loud voice, saying, "Salvation
to our God who sits on the
throne, and to the Lamb.'"
Even in the perfected heaven
and earth God's one people
will be comprised of a variety
of perfected ethnic groups: He
shall dwell among them, and
they shall be,His peoples, and
God Himself shall be among
them, Revelation 20:3. The
holy city, the new Jerusalem
will be one city inhabited by
many perfected races. This
is what Christ intended to
accomplish by His death.
Christ is no racist, therefore no
human being may be.
RACISM AS IDOLATRY
Racism is not only heresy, it
is idolatry! Racism like all
other "isms" is idolatry in
that it absolutizes something
that is relative and finite,
and whenever that happens
everything else becomes
distorted. Taking an aspect
or sphere of creation and
making it the absolute principle
by which all human beings
are judged and all of life
understood is to give that which
has been absolutized the status
of God. It is to create an idol.
Many such idols fill modern
western culture: rationalism,
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empiricisn1, materialisl11,
individualism, statisn1,
sciencism, and racism. "Racist
doctrine judges mankind
according to hereditary, bio-
physical characteristics ...
instead of according to
whether there is obedience or
disobedience to the Word of the
Lord. Our rejection of racism
(n1eans) that not only white
raciSl11 but also black raciSll1 is
to be condemned. (Olthius)"12
FAILED APPROACHES
TO TI-IE RACE ISSUE
First, ANNIHILATION AND
GENOCIDE. This approach of
Hitler and Stalill, and others, is
inconceivable to the Christian
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because of these revealed
truths: (1). Murder is a capital
critlle. (2). God has created all
hUll1an beings of every race,
color and nationality under
heaven in His own itllage. As
Acts 17:24 and 26 tell us: The
God who l11ade the world and
all things in it, since He is
Lord of heaven and earth ... He
made frOlll one, every nation of
l11ankind to live on all the face
of the earth, having detern1ined
their appointed titlles, and the
boundaries of their habitation.
Originally God created one
hUll1an pair, Adan1 and Eve,
frOlll WhOlll descended all the
peoples of the earth. Then,
after the Flood, Noah and
his wife becal11e the second
hun1an pair from whon1 all
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human beings have descended.
Therefore all people as hUl11an
beings aTe cousins, related to
one another by ties of blood
and con1n10n faIllily origin.
(3). God who is Lord of heaven
and earth has ordained that
the human race should live
in accordance with His law.
Legally, 1110l'ally and spiritually
the races of the world have
been given a
God's Law in the Bible-by
which they are to live, and
obedience to which binds
them together and detennines
all their relationships. So
then, the htllllan race is of
one blood, created by one
God, and under one Law.
Therefore we can speak of the
created and legal unity of the
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races of mankind.
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Second,
EXPULSION, PARTITION
AND APARTHEID BASED ON
RACE. The most brutal forms
of apartheid have been in the
old USSR, South Africa and
American Indian reservations.
Such systems result from an
unbiblical nationalism that
believes that citizens of a
nation should all be of the same
ethnic group. This expression
of racism can be illustrated
time and again throughout the
world, e.g., Sudan, Ethiopia,
Bosnia, Croatia. Consistent
Christians however cannot
hold this view because they
know that a nation is defined
by its covenant to its God, not
its race. Israel, as a model for
the world's nations, was multi-
racial, but it was committed
to the Lord by covenant,
and that covenant was its
unifying bond as a nation.
Third, SEGREGATION AND
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
This we have practiced for
over one hundred years in
the United States. It is the
policy of requiring'minorities
by the force of law and public
opinion to function only in a
way that benefits and serves
the interests of the majority or
dominant race. Segregation
is most completely developed
in the traditiona,l Hindu caste
system in India. Consistent
Christians however are
opposed to racial segregation
and discrimination for several
reasons. (1). Such segregation
is the tyrannical usurpation of
authority by the state not given
it by God. (2). It is a denial
of the unity and catholicity
of the Christian Church.
(3). It is disobedience to the
clear injunctions of the law
of God regarding the identity
and treatment of superiors,
inferiors and equals, as
spelled out in the Westminster
Larger Catechism Questions
123-133. And (4). It hinders
Christians from practicing
the ethical and religious
segregation and discrimination
that is required of them in
the Bible, Deuteronomy 7
and II Corinthians 6.Fourth,
FORCED INTEGRATION AND
ASSIMILATION. The solution
most preferred by apostate
white humanists today is
total racial, religious, ethical
integration and assimilation
into a common culture known
as "the American way of life."
This common culture is one
where Biblical Christianity is
viewed as divisive. It involves
the forced assimilation of
whites and non-whites. In
this process all Christians
are required to give up their
distinctively Biblical Christian
worldview, and the black man
and woman are required to give
up their identity and integrity
as black people, to destroy all
ties of loyalty to one's family,
history and locality. Such
assimilation requires the black
man to become a carbon copy
of the white man. He must
become a white black man to
be absorbed into a supposedly
"color-blind" society. However,
to be color-blind in this senses
is to be anti-God, for God is not
oolor blind. He gave the human
race its vast array of colors
because He thinks they are all
beautiful colors, or as Annie
Dillard says, because God loves
pizzazz. To be color-blind is
to deprive a man of his color,
thereby makitlg him white
in your eyes. That is racism.
Such approaches that have
dominated our society since
the 1950's have only increased
raCism, are total failures
when evaluated according
to their own goals, and have
contributed to the present
fragmentation of American
society in multiculturalism
which is ~ complete rejection
of the old integration mentality.
As e b d e n ~ Taylor wrote: If
a person "must first become
integrated before he can
become a Christian, then we
deny that Christ alone of His
own sovereign grace is able
to save us. By claiming that
we have first to be integrated
before we can be saved the
humanists and the ecumenists
have perverted and destroyed
the glorious Gospel of God. If
we cannot be saved even as we
now are-black, white; red or
yellow, but must first lose our
racial, national, cultural and
psychological identities, then
Christ has been dethroned and
God's grace is mocked.
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"Fifth,
BLACK SEPARATISM. Many
young Black people are seeking
a renewed consciousness
of and pride in their own
racial nature, the problem is
that many are attempting to
understand themselves and
to redefine their cultural and
historical roles in terms of
humanistic presuppositions
rather than by the light of the
Word of GOd.
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No meaning,
freedom, dignity or morality is
to be found outside Christ and
His Word, because in Christ
is deposited all the riches of
wisdom and knowledge, and as
Psalm 36:9 says For with Thee
is the fountain of life; in Thy
light we see light. Without the
light of the Word of God, we
walk in darkness. As Black
evangelist, Tom Skinner said,
in explaining his stance on
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the race crisis: "Basically it
is this. I don't have to go out
and struggle for human dignity
any nlore. Christ has given
me my true dignity.16 "This
Blaok separatisnl has a wide
strain of racisnl that is often as
violent as white racism. This
blacl{ racism says: "Blacks
don't need whites to give then1
worth or to learn." This is a
flagrant denial of the God-
created interdependence of the
races, of the falnilies of SheIn,
Ham and Japheth, each with
its own distinct contributions
to make to the whole, so that
without those contribUtions, all
of mankind suffers. According
to the way God has Inade us:
Whites need blacks. Blacks
need whites. Whites need reds.
Blacks need yellows. Yellows
need reds. Reds need blacks.
And so on. The 16th Century
Refornler, Martin Luther offers
us a critique of and answer
to today's black and white
racism. He taught "that to be
a Christian nleant to occupy
a status that was at once
more elevated than any other,
yet those who did occupy it
entered a condition of equality
each with his fellows. Yet this
equality of condition, however,
did not carry the SaIne lneaning
as in later secular delnocratic
thought; that is, the idea of
equality of claiIns or rights.
Rather it Ineant smnething at
once nl0re provocative and
ominous: an equality of nlutual
subservience to our Lord Jesus
Christ where 'no one desires
to be the other's superior, but
each the other's inferior [and
servant]."'17 If Christians got
this mindset, we would soon
see the death of racism, and
according to the promises of
God in the Bible, racism will
M'c('king the Nations Ohr'ist's Disciples
cOlne to au end, Isaiah 11:1-10,
19:23-25, Psalnl 22:27-28.
THE
PRESUPPOSITIONS
OF TI-IE HUMANIST
APPROACH TO RACE
First, the humanist goal for
mankind is the establishnlent
of a harmoniOUS, (utopian),
society based on a conlnlitment
to In an's reason rather than to
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the Word of God, hence based
upon an idolatrous principle
of revolt against the Creator
of lnankind. The hUlnanist
aSSU111eS that Anlerican society
is founded on and centered
in the alleged conlnl0nness
of lnau's reason. Everyone is
reasonable and therefore free
and equal to all other people
A Ohristian Approach to
on that basis. A person can
be a free individual and at the
same tinle an equal nle111ber
of American society because
everyone without exception
is reasonable, (except Bible-
belieVing Christians). Second,
humanistic norms and values
equate freedo111, equality and
justice. Equality, along with
fraternity and liberty were
the great watchwords of the
French Revolution of the late
18th Centurv that soueht to
destroy the last relnnants of
a Christian moral order in
France and to replace that
order with a hUlnanistic,
anti-christian order. It is this
humanistic idea of equality
and justice that relnains the
basis of the appeal of the civil
rights movement,18 the wOlnen's
liberation nl0venlent,19 and the
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homosexual movement.
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This
humanist view that equates
freedom, justice and equality
is schizophrenic.
2
.1 The two
concepts, free and equal, are
opposed to each other outside
a Biblical frame of reference.
In fact, in a purely humanist
worldview these two concepts
negate each other. If everyone
is free "to do his own thing,"
anarchy will result. To avoid
anarchy, it is necessary for the
group in power in a society to
deny the equality of all men, to
limit an individual's freedom
"to do his own thing." The
few at the top, whether it is
the Bolshevik Party under
Communism' or the WASP
establishment in the USA,
become the elite
who make the rules-might
makes right!--and the rest of
the people become the masses
who obey the rules or suffer the
consequences. If everyone is
considered equal in the sense
of similarity or sameness,
a leveling process results
which restricts the individual
freedom and self-expression
of the more productive and
more gifted members of
society. Since a humanistic
worldview has no room for
a Biblical awareness of sin,
freedom cannot be conceived
as freedom from the power
and guilt of sin, and of man's
true service to God. Instead,
freedom is independence from
God and . from the claims of
one's neighbor, it is freedom
from restraints on human
desire. Freedom, acoording
to the humanist is freedom
from leveling, and therefore
freedom negates equality.The
same thing applies to justice
and equality. Outside the
Biblical view that. God is the
source, of all earthly justice, no
true justice between men can
exist. Liberty and justice are
empty terms arbitrarily and
subjectively defined. God alone
can provide man with a limit
upon the power of some men
to exploit their fellow man, and
He has defined those limits in
His revealed Word. Neither can
we equate justice and equality,
since it is precisely such an
identification that gives rise
to the individualistic idea of
society, (libertarianism), which
in terms leads to the dissolution
of all true community between
people. The Christian idea of
justice gives to the element
of inequality or unlikeness
between human beings its due
place alongside that of their
equality before the Law. God
has created all of us equally in
His own image, but He has not
created us all alike. On the
contrary, He has created each
of us with his own personality,
talents, gifts, callings and
spheres of usefulness. Human
beings are equal in their
relation to God as His creations
subject to His Law, and so we
'have dignity as persons. But
human beings are unlike in
their personal individuality and
in their functions and calling
in God's creation. Nevertheless
individual differences between
individuals and races remain
important on this side of
eternity, since what God has
created differently in this
world cannot be irrelevant or
negligible. Therefore no one
race has any moral right to
impose its definition of the
situation upon all other races,
and yet this is precisely what
the humanists in power have
tried to do in America. They
have tried to make all groups
and minorities in America
subscribe to what they are .
pleased to call "the American
Way of Life." All Americans,
according to the humanist,
must bfelong to that one secular
humanist community if they
would belong to America. Not
to be a part of it is abnormal
and anti-American. "To be
separated from the Great
Community, as John Dewey
once called it, is to be less
than American. It is only in
terms of this absolutization
of the humanist's "American
way of life" that makes sense
of the attempt made by [the
humanists and statists] in
America to forcibly integrate
children in the nation into the
public school system.
THE IMPOTENCE
OF NON-CHRISTIAN
ANALYSES AND
"SOLUTIONS" OF
RACISM
Without presupposing the
divine authority of the Bible,
the non-Christian has neither
the logical nor the ethical basis
for morality or knowledge.
He has no basis, apart from
Christ and the Bible, to declare
an action or attitude right
or wrong. In fact, he has no
basis for defining problems or
offering solutions and hope to
the crises of our culture. This
means that with reference
to racism, his analysis and
approach will be off mark and
counterproductive.
22
Although
unbelievers often condemn
racism, they have no logical or
moral basis to do SO.23 We hear
non-Christians argue that "race
is irrelevant," or "it's immoral
to presume inferiority," or "it
is wrong to base prejudice on
The Counsel Qf Ghalcedon
unoontrollable oiroumstanoes," REOONSTRUOTION, Vbl. No.2,
or "raoisnl is a violation of equal Spr'ing 1997), p. 7.1/.
oonsideration of interests." 2) F(wa refutution qfMalthusianism
However, they have no basis read, E. Oalvin Beis1le1; PROSPECTS
f 1 I
FOR GROWTH: A BIBLIOAL VIEW
or 111a dng suo 1 statements in O:F POPULA1'10N, RESOUROES AND
their own seoular humanistio THE FUTURE, Illinois:
worldview. In saying these Orossway Books, 1990).
things they have "sl11uggled in
Biblioal standards ... to provide
a legitimate basis on whioh to
111ake the judgl11ent that raoisnl
is inll11oral.".?4 Fronl the basis of
their hUl11anisnl they oan offer
only despair and in the final
analysis breed l110re raoism.
Given their own secular
presuppositions they cannot
logically condenln raoism as
evil.
3) Ii()1" a n:/utation qf'Da1"'l.vinisnt
read Bolton
AND OHRISTIAN
Ji"'Al1YI, (Philadelphia: Presbyterian
and Rc:f'onned Publishing Co., 1969).
4) For a expose of Sanger and
Planned Pa,renthood 1'ead Ge(n-ge
Grant, GRAND ILLW9IONS:
THE LEGAOY OF PLANNED
PARENTHOOD, (B1'entwood, 'l'N:
Wolgemuth and H.vatt, 1989).
5) Ge01"ge Grant, THE QUIOK AND
THE DEAD: RU-486 AND TIlE NEW
OHEMICAL WARIMRE AGAINST
Recent non-Christian attempts YOUR (Wheaton, Illinois:
in the networks and educational Omssway Books, 1991), pp. 70-71,
institutions to raise the nation's
"social consciousness" about
raciSl11 are ultit11ately hollow
for111s of I1101'al breast-beating,
sinoe unbelievers have no
legitimate non-arbitrary
ethical standard by which to
condenln racist practices. The
non-Christian worldview must
logically and horribly el11brace
racisll1 . .?5
PART II - TJ-IEBIBLICAL
APPROACH TO THE RACE
ISSUE (NEXT ISSUE)
The Biblical.Appmach to the Race
Issue, The Ethics qf a Christian
Unde1'stctnding Qf Racism" The
State ctnd Racism, The Ohurch and
Racism The Family [tnd Racism,
Private Associations and Racism" A
W01-d to Blach Christians StTiving
f01' Justice
1) ]i'm' a C1'itique of a new f01'171
qf moism going under the guise
Qf Clwist-ian Identit.v, see: (1).
Ovid Need, J1:, IDENTIFYING
IDEN'11TY: A Biblical examination
qf assumptions found in B1'i.tish-
lsmelism,
Ohristian-Identity, obtained for $15
/nnn ICing & Kingdom, Publishe1's,
P.O. Box 6, Linden, Indiana,
47955; ftnd (2). Jmnes M. Jarrell,
"The Modenl A1:van HeTesy," in
THE JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN
Making the Nations Ch1'ist's Diseiples
6) Michael Fletche1' quoted by George
G1'ttnt in THE QUIOI( AND THE
DEAD, p. 72.
7) Ibid., p. 34.
8) pp. 72-73.
These quotes are Sange1"s own
w01'(is, quoted by Ge01-ge Grant in
THE QUIOK AND THE DEAD, p. 77.
10) Ibid., p. 77.
11) And1'ew Sandlin, "The Royal
Rlwe of the Redeemed, II an internet
al'ticle found on http://w'uJ'w.
chaloedon.edu, p. 1.
12) E.L. Hebden-TaCl'I01; "The
OhTistian UndeTstanding of
Race Relations," delivered at the
SU?nnw1' Institute, 1973, Wi:'t1Ten
Wilson Oollege, Swannanoa, North
Cam tina, p. 13.
13) ((Though we m'e not all qf the
smnefct1nily qf.faith, 'we a1'e all pa1't
Qf the same ultimate genetic family.
Douglas Jones, III, "The Biblical
Qffense Qf Racism," (ANTITIlESIS,
Vol. I, No.1 Jan/Feb 1990), p. 35.
14) E.L. Hebden-T[zvI01;
REFORMATION OR REFOLUTION,
(Nutley: NJ, 'l'he Om,ig Press, .197q),
p, S31,
15) Oa1'l Ji" Bllis, J1:, BEYOND
LIBERATION: THE GOSPEL IN THE
BLAOKAMJiJRIOAN EXPERIENOE,
(Downe1's Gmve, Illinois.'
A Chdstian AppToach to Racis1n
16) Tom Shinne1; BLAOK AND
FREB, (Ol'and Rapids, Michigan:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1969),
pp . .149-.154.
.17) E.L. Hebden-Tay[ol' in ((The
Christian Understanding of Race
Relations," p. 10. The IAti:he1' q'Lwte
can be found in POlJTIOS AND
"ISION by Sheldon S. Wolin, (Boston:
Little Brown Publishers), pp . .1S3-
154.
18) l1wmas Sowell, OIFIL RIGHTS:
RHETORIO OR REALJTY?,
William M01TOW and Company,
1984).
19) Sylvia Ann Hewlett, LESSER
LIFE: THE MYTH OF WOMBN'S
LIBERATION IN AMERIOA,
Wl'tnwr Books, 1986), and Ge01-ge
Gilder, MEN AND MARRIAGE,
(G1'etna, LA: Pelican PuiJlishing
Company, 1987).
20) GTeg Bahnsen,
A BIBLICAL
"1m, (Gmnd Rapids, Michigan:
Bake1'13ooh House, 1978), Ohuch
and Donna Mcilhenny, WHEN THE
H'lOKBD SEIZE A (Lafayette,
Louisiana: Huntington House
Publishers, 1993).
2.1) This following few paragmphs
a1'e based on an excellent (l.1,ticle
by Douglas M. Jones, III, entitled,
I<The Biblical Offense of Racism" II in
ANTITHESIS, 11ol. I, No. I, Ja'nlFeb
.1990), pp. 32j.
22) GTeg Bahnsen, ALWAYS READY:
DIRJiJ01YONiS POR DEFENDING
THE FAITH, (Texa1'hana, Texas:
Covenant Media Foundation,
1996) and R.J. RushdoOl1)', BY
WHAT STANDARD?, (Philadelphia:
PTesbyteTian and RE(formed
Publishing 00., 1965.
23) Douglas Jones has explained
the four ]Jm111,inent m-guments the
unbelieve1' uses to condemn 1'lWiSl11"
and then shows that they have no
basis to mahe such [tTguments, in
his m'ticle, "The Biblical OfJense qf
Racism," (AN1Y1YIESIS, Vol. 1, No.1,
Jall/1.i'eb 1990), pp. 32j.
24) Ibi,d., p. 32.
25) Ibid., p. 32.
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