On Deuteronomy and White Supremacy

[“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” ― Mark Twain]

The Fall of Man

“Ye shall be as gods !” hissed the serpent as Eve took her first bite. This was the our first temptation and, in a strange twist of fate, the first temptation of the devil himself—equality.

In this case, the serpent of the garden promised equality with the Most High. Eve fell for it then and it seems that her children have kept falling for it periodically ever since. Equality is the major temptation of our time. Even the virtuous fall for it. The good man may reject promiscuity, lying, greed, and envy yet may still hold on to the god of equality. This false god, spawned of the first temptation, floats in the ether today—saturating everything around us till it is almost invisible.

This siren song is attractive because we share the same weakness of the heart that cast the fair Morning Star down from heaven—Pride.

Pride & the Rainbow

Pride is the besetting sin of our age. It has slithered into so many institutions and ideologies that we now spend city resources and our taxpayer money to hold parades down main street celebrating it. Less obvious—though no less evil—is the quiet pride that causes so many christians (small-c) to accept LGBT, or “gay marriage”, or “women pastors”.

After all, all are equal. God has no say as to our standing. All our social standing is due to our own efforts or—horror—due to “outdated” and quaint “antiquated” views. Progress! Equality! That is the drumbeat I have heard all my life.

Galatians 3:28

“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”

This is the verse most often cherry picked to support the idea of equality. Yet, as is often said, “The devil can quote scripture to his purpose”. When Paul exhorted his brethren to faith and explained that everyone—no matter their race or gender—has the same path to Christ and the same covering, he did not, in on fell swoop, eliminate the categories of male & female (which would then lead to supporting gay marriage if you think about it). Nor did he eliminate the categories of race.

The Reality of Race

For the longest time I believed the lie that “Race was a social construct”. This is a common trope in the atheist circles that I frequented and is supported by a plethora of scientific papers. These show—apparently—that race does not exist and that racial differences are simply made up by us as a social norms or due to environmental circumstances.

This, I now see, is as absurd as the current fashion that there is no gender. As then, now scientific papers abound that purport to show that gender is a social construct and there are no significant differences between men and women. Deny what you see with your eyes while feeling proud of being scientifically “clever” (in both cases).

Inequality

Once we accept that race is real, the lie shifts to a more insidious one—that the differences are completely superficial and only skin-deep.

The underlying philosophy here—the religious drive—is the idea that God created all men equal. This idea is so pervasive that for the longest time (until yesterday when you sent your message on Deuteronomy) I actually believed it came from the bible! However, once you explained Deuteronomy 20, it became obvious that this pernicious idea did not come from God.

Where, then, did it come from?

John Locke

It is surprising to realise that this idea—“all men are created equal”—is relatively a new one. We can trace it back to an anonymous note in 1689 called “Two Treatises of Civil Government” by John Locke. It was an explicit attack on patriarchy which argues as it’s primary point that

Adam had not…[any] authority over his children, or dominion over the world

This was used as the basis for the bloody and cruel French revolution and later adopted by the American colonies in their revolution against the British.

It is a political philosophy—pretending to be a Godly one.

Race Differences

The idea that race is irrelevant would have been so inconceviable that it would have been laughed at as early as half a century ago. Yet now the idea that it is irrelevant (except superficially) resonates so strongly with our culture that it needs explicit refutation. The “I have a dream” speech by MLK Jr (leader of a most awful movement) has it’s claws sunk deep into our minds and references Locke’s work on “natural law”. The founding fathers wrote “all men are created equal” to justify their break from England. They continued to own slaves (Thomas Jefferson included) and would have fainted from shock if you suggested that a black man was then their equal. However there is no way to “sin just a little”. Once accepted, the bus was out of the station and onto the slippery slope of equality slowly but surely gaining momentum. So there it was—ready for MLK to hop on and use—blacks equal, then women became ‘equal’, now the LGBT are on the equality bus as we careen at breakneck speed towards societal crash.

India & Burma

Back to race differences. We often think that race differences can be explained away through environment or circumstance. “It’s poverty!” is the rallying cry of everyone explaining away the monstrous crime rates in the black community. This explanation is quite strange given that poor people exist all over the world and that white poor people have nowhere near the levels of crime that the blacks do.

“Colonization” is another excuse trotted out to explain away differences. However, African countries that have never been colonized—such as Ethiopia—suffer from the same levels of extreme poverty and horrendous violent crime as their colonized counterparts. On the other hand, South Africa used to have first-world level cities and excellent systems—until it was handed back to the black people.

One picture is worth a thousand words and so I offer this visual of the India/Burma border:

These are countries with comparable levels of poverty and education. Yet the difference is obviously clear. (I’ll leave you to guess which side is India)

When I was confirming the authenticity of this image I found this comment on reddit:

It’s only sad if you think everyone is equal. Otherwise it’s just normal.

White Supremacy

There is more I could say to support this case—including the unequal treatment meted out to Abhraham’s children and the unequal roles of men and women—but I think this note has gone long enough. I will bring it back to the premise of the title the argument for which is now quite simple: if races are not the same and they are not equal they must be unequal by definition. Unequal not as in “different but good in their own ways” but unequal as in “better or worse in many things” as we discussed in the Parable of the Talents.

Without putting on the distorting lens of equality—we can see this in the world for ourselves. In general whites are more civilized, have beautiful art, music, & culture. For the most part, they are better looking, stronger, fairer, more creative, and build better societies than everyone else. If you had to rank the races they would likely come out at the top—hence white supremacy. Q.E.D.