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[url=http://littlegeneva.com/sproul5.html]I Prefer My Red Herring With Dill Sauce: Part 5 of my response to the Every Thought Captive issue "Neither Jew Nor Greek"[/url]
by Harry Seabrook
In the British magazine Prospect, David Goodhart writes: "Thinking about the conflict between solidarity and diversity is another way of asking a question as old as human society itself: who is my brother? With whom do I share mutual obligations? The traditional conservative Burkean view is that our affinities ripple out from our families and localities, to the nation and not very far beyond. That view is pitted against a liberal universalist one which sees us in some sense equally obligated to all human beings from Bolton to Burundi? [Burkeans] argue that we feel more comfortable with, and are readier to share with, and sacrifice for, those with whom we have shared histories and similar values. To put it bluntly - most of us prefer our own kind."
Who is my brother? RC Sproul Jr says that Christians are our brothers, and he is not incorrect. But God, who could raise up sons of Abraham from the rocks in the road, has chosen to raise them in families, and He gave us specific rules for the maintenance of the family. We do not disown our families (or our extended families). In fact, we rise and fall with them; throughout the Bible, God pronounces judgment on entire races of men. When Christians deny natural kinship, their nations die. In short, the fifth commandment is not only valid for Christian parents. Peter Brimelow is correct that a nation is "an ethnocultural community, an interlacing of ethnicity and culture. Invariably, it speaks one language. In recent years, in the United States, there has been a tendency to emphasize the cultural part of the equation. But this is to miss a critical point. The word 'nation' is derived from the Latin 'nescare,' to be born. It intrinsically implies a link by blood. A nation in a real sense is an extended family." .......
So how does this affect us today? Christians like to complain about multiculturalism and its harmful effect on traditional society, but they wink at multiracialism. Sodomite marriage is only the latest broadside against our cadaverous Christian culture. Why is it so hard to see the connection? ........
Americans have been trained to ignore state law and accept the national will as supreme. In 1967, 16 states still had laws against miscegenation. In that year (the same year that Jewish director/producer Stanley Kramer made the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), the national government outlawed the will of these states. Since then, the American sheeple have gladly acquiesced to the dictates of the television set. In March of 1994, Christianity Today urged readers to rejoice over mixed-race marriages and mixed-race children and to do everything possible to make them fully accepted in society. It even went so far as to say that the media is morally ahead of the churches in this area! Before long, Bob Jones University misplaced its backbone and ended its ban on interracial dating. Now anti-sodomy laws have fallen, and so too are laws protecting biblical marriage about to fall. It is all because we have torn down the boundaries dividing us (imposed by God Himself at Babel), and have pretended that people are just people. I suppose one way to sleep easier at night is to move to the mountains and preach to majority-white congregations that all "Americans" are equal, but this is a picture of a civilization in retreat. How long before the corpse hardens? .......