So the Pendulum Swings...

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Remember those good old days a few years ago when all the woke progressives were quick to inform you of your racism? (If you were white, that is, or a black person who was on the wrong script?)

They got sort of laughed out of town recently with Matt Walsh’s “Am I a Racist?” The media is on to bigger and better rage bait at the moment. Ibram X. Kendi has been…disappointing, and Robin DiAngelo is just not the in thing anymore. In fact, the anti-racists are awfully quiet right now. Either that or the media is just not giving them time anymore.

But when the whole “all whites are racists” and “all whites benefit from systemic oppression of minorities” schtick was beating us all black and blue some years ago, I began to wonder when white supremacy was going to have its day in the sun once more. After all, you can’t call all white people racists for a decade and expect they won’t get mad and determine,

“Fine. You want a racist? I’ll show you a racist!”

To my increasing dismay, white supremacy is popular again where it once used to be fringe and cringe. And it was predictable. I read a piece by Brendon O-Neill called How did Robin DiAngelo get away with it for so long? in Sp!ked. The argumentation of both racialists, be they white or black are identical:

DiAngelo’s output was always intellectually thin and morally suspect. ‘All white people’, she said, ‘receive, absorb and are influenced by the racist messages continually circulating across the society we live in’. Here, she simply replaced the old racial infantilisation of black people with a new racial infantilisation of white people. Where racialists once viewed ‘low IQ’ black people as uniquely susceptible to natural or cultural messaging, the new racialists view white people in the same way. Replacing moral panics about black deviance with moral panics about white immorality, going from depicting black people as an anti-social scourge to depicting white people as perma-racist ‘fragile’ freaks, simply overlays one form of racial fatalism with another. — Brendon O-Neill

And we’ve boomeranged right back.

White people have been put through a struggle session for so long, they just don’t care if you think they’re racist anymore. (Myself included.) And the real racists are out, loud and proud, especially on X.

A lot of them claim to be Christians. They study their Bibles, they write papers, and they spew crap like this:

Meet Michael Spangler, the author of a series of articles concerning Christian Race Realism. Apparently, he’s my neighbor in the next state over from me, North Carolina. I’ve been perusing his series on a website called pactuminstitute.com this afternoon (March 1) after hurting my back in the garden and being stuck in bed trying to recover. Feel free to go have a gander at it for yourself.

I have not finished Spanglers series yet, but I intend to read it thoroughly. I am extremely curious to know if his arguments line up with some of the old South’s slavery-defending theologians. Here’s a quote from his last article in the series to give you an idea of what we’re facing:

“I focus on black sins here because they’re the most well-known, but oddly nonetheless least likely to be mentioned publicly. When it comes to blacks, speaking of race-linked morality is highly taboo. One reason for this is that honest recognition of it would destroy the apparent justice of the “Civil Rights” narrative at the heart of modern leftism.

But some sensitive Christians will complain here, noting that sin is a moral, not a racial problem. Sin is a matter of the soul, not of the body. Race is genetic, morality is spiritual. The answer is, like language, morality is distinct from race in the abstract, but in many respects still inseparable from it in the concrete. Blacks, whites, and Asians act in black, white, and Asian ways, for good or ill. Moreover, yes morality is a matter of the soul, but the soul has a race as much as the body. Better said, the whole man has a race, and his body and soul are his two essential parts, the soul the informing form of the body, with each soul created uniquely by God for each body—this is the opinion of the creationists; traducianists teach the soul is procreated by the parents, so in that view also the soul properly has a race. And of course, the soul in doing good or evil usually employs the body, and is influenced by it.” Christian Race Realism Part 3: Nature

And here he is setting up his objections to interracial marriages:

We will discuss racially-mixed marriages again in the application article, but here we would highlight the zeal of Abraham in seeking a wife for his son from his kindred, though they lived far away (Gen. 24:3–4), Isaac’s imitation of the same (Gen. 28:1–2), and the joy of Laban in finding a potential son-in-law in Jacob, “Surely thou art my bone and my flesh” (Gen. 29:14). Compare Adam’s joy expressed in much the same way when he first saw Eve, after she was made from his own side (2:23).

In light of all these things, if some would assert that race realism in general, or in specific a preference for intra-ethnic or intra-racial marriage, is unique to the Old Testament economy, and not at all a matter of universal, permanent, general equity, we would simply say here, the burden of proof for this assertion rests entirely on them. Christian Race Realism Part 3: Scripture

And a quote from his concluding article:

Moreover, because race is real, so are racial besetting sins, and thus each race must be called to repent of them. We have previously discussed black sins (see especially article 3, under “Morality”), and here we call blacks to turn from them. Black men, you are my fellow human beings, but like the Cretians, you behave like evil beasts; therefore I must rebuke you sharply (Titus 1:12–13). You must repent of your gross fornication, your deeply broken families, your woeful criminality, and your wanton disregard for life, as in such shameful numbers you murder my own people, and especially your fellow blacks. You must repent of your false form of godliness (2 Tim. 3:5), by which so many in your churches shout “Lord, Lord,” but will be told on the last day, “Depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Matt. 7:23). You must also repent of your willful participation as a tool of godless social revolution. You willingly assisted in the burning down of Christendom, in the American South, in Rhodesia, in South Africa. And what have you gained from it but guilt and shame, and deeper slavery to sin and misery? In all these things you must repent of your own racial pride, which cannot abide an honest assessment of your race’s weaknesses and sins, especially from the lips of whites. Christian Race Realism Part 6:

I have a lot of reading and studying ahead of me, and I’m not looking forward to it. If I’m honest, I’ve put this off for a long time. It’s incredibly distasteful to me, and I resent having to think about it at all. Because, contrary to the woke left’s opinions, I actually believe racial hatred or racial supremacy of any kind or color is a wicked sin that grieves God. I am incredibly disappointed with those who have sunk to the new low of fighting sin (woke leftists ideology and all it entails) with more sin (woke right ideology and all it entails). Contrary to some rather loudmouthed pastor’s on X, there is no such thing as “sinning in the right direction.” All sin goes one way—away from God. It’s gross.

And it’s even more appalling that it’s becoming more and more common in Christian circles I have had much respect for over the years— from Lutheran, Reformed, and Baptist churches who lean towards Reformed theology.

It was a series of sermons by a wonderful Reformed pastor, for instance, that became a lifeline I clung to when I was going through years of doubt about my faith. My own brother-in-law is a wonderful and godly pastor of a Baptist church which I would consider more Reformed/Calvinistic than the church I attend.

But from the Protestant side of things, this is where the racism and Jew hatred is coming from.

How prevalent are the voices in these circles? As yet, I don’t know.

But unfortunately, they’re getting louder and more bold by the day. Eventually, someone’s going to show up in my church or yours repeating these talking points.

So, I feel that I need to be personally prepared, and I can’t be prepared against lies if I don’t know what the lies are and how they contradict the truth. And sometimes, it can be very hard to discern lies from truth. The Devil rarely presents a lie dressed up as a cow pie and shoves it in your face. On the contrary, he’s very careful to skillfully mix truth with lies to present a compelling and reasonable-sounding argument.

Wish me patience and discernment as I do my reading. I will be sharing everything I read with my husband who is an excellent soundboard and quite wise. And perhaps, once I’ve wrapped my head around the lies that are being told well enough to explain them, more pieces on this topic will be forthcoming.

Please keep me in your prayers and be on your guard.

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” I Peter 5:8

That’s all for now. Until next time, folks…

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