For Adventists who no longer believe in the traditional biblical sins, racism is a godsend. It provides the moral drama of damnation and redemption, confession and absolution, in a way that is compatible with the larger secular culture and their own political ideology.
Fighting racism isn’t just a cause, it’s a religion. And all that remains of certain sectors of the North American Division.
Racism has diminished, but the religious, emotional and financial need for its existence on the part of the religion of racism did not. Their mission is now manufacturing racism. The most mundane interactions (like expressing condolences for the widow of a murdered man) are reinterpreted through the discriminating eye of the microaggression. Otherwise neutral church institutions are accused of pervasive whiteness. Racism has ceased to be an observable interaction between individuals and is now the unseen covalent bond of all social matter in the church. The video below begins around the 55-minute mark:
1:07:00 the church is full of idiots.
1:08:01 white racist ministers have brainwashed you to believing that the Seal of God is the Sabbath. It isn’t.
Commentary
The religion of racism has reached its logical conclusion. True to social justice norms, it is no longer the absence of black people, but the presence of white people that is racist. Racism was America’s original sin. White people carried it everywhere with them like radiation. To be white was to have your body and your mind, your thoughts, your writings and even the inanimate objects around you be infected by racial radioactivity. And Amazing Facts is racist because the leaders of it are white. Because she says so. And the Sabbath is not the Seal of God. Why not? Because she says so.
The religion of racism, like all religion, has found something that explained everything. The original sin is now whiteness.
This puritanical panic over the religion of racism has less to do with fear of racism than the emotional needs of the witch hunters. Denouncing fellow Adventists and becoming the center of attention is emotionally fulfilling for the same psychological reasons that it was for the Salem accusers, the Parisian mobs of the French Revolution and the rampaging Communist students of the Cultural Revolution.
The SDA left likes to believe that it’s a positive movement, defined by its utopian aspirations, not its brutal tactics. But it is a movement built on fear and hate, on a historical inevitability that is premised not on denominational progress, but on denominational collapse, on inescapable problems and necessarily ruthless solutions.
The religion of racism isn’t unique to Adventism. But there is something special about it in this church. It stinks of the soured beliefs of liberal religious denominations, their loss of faith in God and man, and their growing conviction that salvation lies only in wielding the unlimited power of cancel culture and demonic-fired anger..
Operating under radical left wing views that would have disgusted CD Brooks, they insist that racism is a collective racial crime, that white people are racist by birth, that black people are incapable of racism and that a racist society or church cannot be healed, only destroyed.
Discuss.
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Helpful verses:
“All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:18).
“And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence” (1 Timothy 2:12).