If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
The Answer
So, we see that the Bible teaches that we were all of one race: the human race. There are differences, varieties, adaptations within the species, but we are all human beings. Therefore, for one person or group to ridicule, isolate, or injure another group of human beings because of accidental characteristics — variables within the human species they were born with — is a cruel and irrational response. Such tribalism promotes widespread division of people, degradation of humanity itself and makes the civil community at any level — from the family to the city, to the nation – an impossible vision. Since such prejudicial language and hostile actions against people flow from the accidental traits they carry from birth, there can be no other assumption that the source of such prejudice is pure hatred that leads to division and division that leads to violence. Such societal confusion that breeds national fragmentation, i.e., the Balkanization of America , is a well-known chapter in the anarchist strategies of Marxism, Communism, and Socialism. When we hate each other enough, an oppressive force then steps in to heal the breach. In thirty-two years of military service, including top-secret intelligence gathering and analysis in the Cold War, and the command of all Military Intelligence Readiness Command chaplains posted around the globe, I have seen the devious plan at work. I have also witnessed the consequences. As a theologian and curator of the human soul, I know the damage done for generations.
The Bible condemns this as an assault on the image of God in humanity. Every Christian leader should also decry the articles of such ethnic and cultural cleansing. Unfortunately, critical race theory, and books such as Ibram X. Kendi’s 2019 book, How to Be an Antiracist , have become mainstream. The views are not only immature, poorly stated, and riddled with historical errors. C. . They are contrary to God’s Word and, thus, harmful to human existence. Yet, their horrendous ideologies are being taught in grammar schools through the professional postgraduate course. There can only one conclusion to normalizing hatred grounded in accidental differences in humankind: the loss of necessary, rational, civil discourse, which invariably leads to civil violence, and violence which leads to self-destruction.
Receive God’s love in Jesus Christ, and you will not only be protected from such corrosive ideologies, but you will also overcome it. For good is stronger than evil, and the God who sent His Son to save one race, the race of humanity, will transform you. How did your mother sing it to you when you were a child?
“Jesus loves the little children, all of the children of the world; Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight; Jesus loves the little children of the world.“