I stumbled across this critique of Kinism from 2007 on the Barlow Farms blog that really pounded home for me how much of modern Christianity is simply hard Leftism gussied up with some Jesus and some twisted scripture tossed in to keep the suckers quiescent.
He makes several points that are almost too easy to refute if your willing to take the time…
Yes, the “racially aware” sites generally simply link to news articles in the mainstream press, but they basically cull all the ones that put non-caucasians in a bad light.
The reason we do this is because we race realists feel that the media hide and cover up the realities of racial crime, I realize this makes your pointy head hurt but do try to keep up old boy.
Now, this individual makes a variety of points but the grist of the argument seems to boil down to this…
When Jared Taylor argues his case that diversity is hard and weakening to society, nearly all comers fail to mount a logical response to him. And though he calls himself a “racial realist” one of his debate partners – a professor in Halifax – made a great observation – that Taylor is not so much a “racial realist” as a “racial fatalist.”
First here is a link to that debate between Taylor and ‘the professor in Halifax.’ See if you think that ‘the professor’ came off the better in the debate. (crap, it used to be available for free, now it appears you have to pay for it)
Which got me to thinking, as I’m a Christian and a race realist after all, is this true? Is it racial fatalism to believe that different races shouldn’t live together?
Here’s what I came up with, would it be “gravity fatalism” for me to not be willing to jump off a cliff? Would I be denying God if I wouldn’t put a gun to my head and pull the trigger expecting God to stop the bullet?
Would that be faith? Or a twisted sick version of same?
I’d have to say the latter. And like all his laws of nature it is not denying God to live within the bounds and norms of his creation.
A point this individual makes over and over in the piece is…
And here is why Kinism can be properly descriptive and yet pernicious at the same time. It essentially teaches that humans should give up on salvation, separate from each other, and simply wait for God to make the races interact with trust and comfort. This “let go and let God” approach is unbiblical.
Hm, let’s unpack this shall we?
1.) Give up on salvation?
WTF! Look, I live in a big, quite diverse city, and like sane people everywhere I avoid the Black parts of town like the plague. Why? Because, like most, I’m a pretty big fan of breathing, does that mean I’ve “given up on salvation?” Talk about a desperate conflation of two things that have nothing to do with one another.
2.) Separate from each other?
But wait, this presumes that we should have a diverse society in the first place, which seems like a pretty big assumption to me. I’m pretty confident actual scripture is pretty quiet on that subject.
3.) And simply wait for God to make the races interact with trust and comfort
But what do we mean by interact? Who was it that carved us up into racial and ethnic nations? Why it was God, and it needs to be noted that it was a punishment. So why must we interact at the personal level? Seeing that people instinctively avoid “diversity”* perhaps that is simply the way God made us. Or are we racists for eating meat?
4.) This “let go and let God” approach is unbiblical
Actually I don’t think it is, unless you see no firebreak between modern universal Leftism and Christianity. I do, in fact I’ve read the Bible and know that in too many cases where modern Christians go wrong is in attempting to be more righteous than God. God hasn’t commanded different races to live together, he simply asked that we not actively discriminate against people due to color of skin et al.
And we can do that and still not live in the same country.
Now let me flip this around, I would argue that the notion of Kinism is not much different from the utterly natural feeling we have toward our family. I don’t have to hate anybody or anyone to love my family especially nor do I think there is anything wrong with that. I find the idea of working to protect your people a beautiful one, yes it can get ugly, protecting those you love usually does, but it is ultimately a good thing.
One other statement this Joker makes I wanted to address was this…
And certainly we all recognize that ethnic and cultural diversity is as difficult and challenging as it is enriching.
Is “cultural diversity” enriching? Really? I continue to plead for one, just one hard data point that would indicate that diversity is enriching? Professor Putnam wagered his good name on that premise and could not make the case.
The question I have for the Joker here is this: do you believe in God or diversity? And if I could make the case to you that God doesn’t care about diversity would you still be a Christian?
