racism – rhetoric and reality

RACISM - Rhetoric & Reality

How Civilizations Commit Suicide

by Dr. Peter Hammond

RACISM – RHETORIC AND REALITY

by Dr. Peter Hammond

Only Biblical Christianity offers a rational basis for opposing racism and for pursuing justice. Equality before the Law is a Biblical principle:

“The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living

among you; this is a lasting

ordinance for the generations to

come.

A Common Law

You and the alien shall be the same before the Lord. The same laws and regulations will apply both to

you and to the alien living among you.” Numbers 15:15-16

“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favouritism to the great, but judge your neighbour fairly.”

Leviticus 19:15

Equity in Law

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free,

male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Galatians 3:28

Unity in Christ

“For He Himself is our peace Who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.” Ephesians 2:14

Removing Enmity

“From one man He made every nation of men…” Acts 17:26

Creation

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

A Ministry of Reconciliation

All this is from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.

And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:17-19

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength…love your neighbour as

yourself.” Mark 12:30-31

The Greatest Commandment

Before the coming of Christ, the heathen nations despised honest work and consigned it to slaves.

Slavery in the Ancient World

When Christ was born, half of the population of the Roman Empire were slaves. Three quarters of the population of Athens were slaves.

But Jesus revolutionised labour. By taking up the axe, the saw, the hammer and the plane, our Lord imbued labour with a new dignity.

Setting the Captives Free

Christianity undercut slavery by giving dignity to work. By reforming work Christianity transformed the entire social order.

Our Lord Jesus Christ began His ministry in Nazareth with these words: “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me…to proclaim freedom for the

prisoners…and release to the oppressed.” Luke 4:18

When the Apostle Paul wrote to Philemon concerning his escaped slave, he urged him to welcome back Onesimus “no longer as a slave, but…as

a dear brother…as a man and as a brother in the Lord.” Philemon:16

No Longer as a Slave

Because of these and other Scriptural commands to love our neighbour, to be good Samaritans and to do for others what you would want them

to do for you, Christians like St. Patrick, William Wilberforce,

Eradicating the Slave Trade

John Newton, William Carey, David Livingstone, Lord Shaftsbury and

General Charles Gordon, and so many others, worked tirelessly

to end the slave trade, stop child labour and set the captives free.

Amongst all the religions of the world, only Christianity brought an end to the slave trade.

• “…where • the Spirit • of the Lord • is, • there is

freedom.” • 2 Corinthians 3:17

On the other hand, those who hold to Darwin's theory of evolution, have no objective basis with which to counter racism.

Social Darwinism Promotes Racism

In fact, Darwinian Evolutionism has inspired a whole host of racist ideologies and movements including Communism.

The actual title of Darwin's famous evolutionary book is: “On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the

preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.”

Karl Marx wanted to dedicate “Das Kapital” to Charles Darwin and wrote “Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in the natural

sciences for the historical class struggle.”

Evolution Leads to Revolution

“Violence is the midwife…” As Lenin and Stalin so succinctly put it: “Evolution leads to revolution.”

Both Darwin and Marx expressed racist views.

Marx and Darwin Were Racists

It is ironic that so many Russians and Africans have held Marxist beliefs, because Marx himself despised the Slavs and the Blacks,

writing that they were “frozen at pre-civilisation levels” and would never make any contribution to history! (Karl Marx The Racist, 1978;

Understanding The Times, David Noebel, 1991; Marx and Satan, Richard Wurmbrand).

“They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity…” 2 Peter 2:19

Slaves of Corruption

The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as: “…discrimination against or antagonism towards other races.”

Antagonism

Yet many who speak out vitriolically against racism, are themselves racist, displaying intense antagonism towards people of other races, and

advocating policies which discriminate on the basis of race.

Hypocrisy

These are many of the same people who would respect Martin Luther King Jr., but who are not willing to live by his maxim: “They will not be

judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Colour or Character?

Frustrated people easily give in to character conditioned hate. The easiest idea to sell anyone is that he is better than someone else.

The Genocide in Rwanda

The holocaust in Rwanda where mobs of Hutus slaughtered over 800 000 Tutsi Christians is just one example

of the destructive power of tribalism in Africa today.

More people were killed with machetes in six weeks in Rwanda, than have been killed

by nuclear weapons in all of history.

H.G. Wells noted that racism

“justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.”

Justifying Cruelty and Mass Murder

Professor Noel Ignater in Harvard Magazine (Oct2002) wrote: "The goal of abolishing the white race is, on the face of it, so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it

could… any opposition…

Make no mistake, we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social

construct known as the white race is destroyed."

Prof. Noel Ignater has declared: "I would like to put white males in concentration camps. When they are

all dead we can throw a party and dance around their corpses."

Abraham Heschel described racism as

“the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.”

It is disturbing how many African leaders, while ostensibly opposing racism support one of the most vitriolic racists on the continent today:

Robert Mugabe.

Supporting Extreme Racial Hatred

Despite Zimbabwean dictator, Robert Mugabe, being guilty of some of the most vicious racism with a disastrous policy of state sponsored

terrorism, the stealing and looting of farms and businesses, murder of farmers and opposition members,

terrorising of supreme court justices, bombing of opposition newspaper offices, imprisoning of critics and reckless promotion of racial hatred

against whites, the ANC government of South Africa steadfastly refuses to criticise Mugabe.

The crisis in Zimbabwe is severe. People are dying of starvation in a man made famine, orchestrated by the ZANU-PF government of

Robert Mugabe.

National Suicide

Thousands of productive farms have been seized by government organised mobs. Vast herds of cattle and wildlife have been slaughtered.

Crops and stores burned. Farmhouses looted. Many people beaten or murdered.

One of the most productive agricultural economies in Africa

has been systematically destroyed because

of fanatical racial hatred.

Economic Suicide

Not only did these farms feed the entire nation, but they also

exported food, providing the highest percentage

of foreign exchange earnings.

These commercial farms were also the largest employers of labour in the country and provided homes for up to 4 million farm workers

and their dependants.

Yet, the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, needing a scapegoat for his failed socialism, played the race card and declared: “Farmers are

enemies of the state!… We have degrees in violence!…Those farmers who resist will die!”

Degrees in Violence

During Presidential Elections in Zimbabwe thousands of MDC election observers and supporters have been arrested in massive nationwide

clamp downs on the opposition.

Stealing Elections

Human rights groups have documented many hundreds of thousands of cases of human rights abuses in the run up to the elections.

These included severe beatings, abductions, torture and murder.

ZANU-PF officials, supporters, war veterans and youth brigade militia have rampaged through residential areas, attacking people

indiscriminately, beating street vendors, dragging white farmers from their cars, savagely beating and murdering many.

Yet, although almost all observers condemned these elections as fraudulent, incredibly, the African National Congress (ANC) government of South Africa have repeatedly expressed their “warm congratulations”

to Robert Mugabe for “convincing majority wins.”

Winking at Evil

Many condemned the ANC's “obscene haste” to declare the polls legitimate, even before all the reports had come in.

Blatant Dishonesty

When the head of the South African Observer Commission declared the elections “legitimate” and brushed aside the widespread murder,

violence, abduction and torture of observers and massive irregularities, he was jeered by journalists and diplomats alike.

When questioned about the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of voters in Zimbabwe, the ANC official dismissed it as

“an administrative oversight!”

Journalists laughed out loud, stood up and walked out in disgust. “Whoever says to the guilty, you are innocent - peoples will curse him

and nations denounce him.” Proverbs 24:24

It is evident that this blind support for Mugabe is inspired, in large part, by racial prejudice.

Blinded by Racial Hatred

Despite Mugabe engineering one of the most “spectacular economic collapses in history” with his national suicide of Zimbabwe, all too many black political leaders support him - irrespective of the lawlessness and

savagery afflicting the population of Zimbabwe.

This racism and hypocrisy has also been evident at world events such as the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development hosted in South

Africa.

Sustainable Destruction

Even while Mugabe's supporters were slaughtering endangered wildlife and destroying huge forests and game reserves in Zimbabwe, Mugabe was being applauded as a key note speaker at the World Summit on

Sustainable Development!

Some of the greatest game reserves in Africa have been in Zimbabwe. Now many of these wildlife sanctuaries are scenes of unprecedented

slaughter. Along with the wholesale poaching, Marxist mobs have been engaged in wholesale theft, abductions and murder.

Properties have been burned out, tourists have been chased out of safari camps and game rangers have been assaulted and even killed.

“How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and

birds have perished.” Jeremiah 12:4

Under Mugabe even judges have been assaulted by mobs in their chambers in court, journalists and editors have been arrested and

tortured,

The Death of Justice

pastors have been arrested for praying for peace and justice, and the only independent daily newspaper and radio station in Zimbabwe were blown up. “Destructive forces are at work in the city; threats and lies

never leave its streets.” Psalm 55:11

How can anybody in the ANC ever again speak against the racial discrimination of “apartheid South Africa”, when they have instituted

their own racial discrimination through Black Economic Empowerment racial quotes,

Scandalous Double Standards

job reservation affirmative action

in South Africa, smashing

historic monuments, burning priceless,

irreplaceable works of art,

singing about killing whites,

murdering farmers in torturous ways,

and are so enthusiastically

supportive of Robert Mugabe's vicious racism

in Zimbabwe?

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness…who are wise in their own eyes…who

acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent…for they have rejected the Law of the Lord Almighty…” Isaiah 5:20-24

It turns out that those screaming "racism!" the most, are the worst racists of all.

"And you shall know the truth

and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32

TruthGod is Truth. God's Word

is Truth. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth

and the Life.

Truth

Under the Duties Required in the Ninth

Commandment, the Westminster Larger

Catechism lists:

The duty of preserving and

promoting Truth.

The duty to stand for the truth and to do so from the heart. The duty to speak the truth and only the truth

in matters of judgment and justice.

The duty to speak the truth at all times. The duty to study and practice everything true, noble, lovely and of good report.

Deception

Under Sins Forbidden in the Ninth Commandment, the Westminster

Standards include: The sin of giving false evidence. The sin of lying.

The sin of concealing the truth. The sin of misconstruing intentions. The sin of exaggerating minor faults.

The sin of perverting the truth to a wrong meaning.

You are Being Lied To

The Scripture teaches us that satan is deceiving the nations. If we find ourselves in full agreement with Hollywood and the United Nations, we need to stop and carefully consider

where we have been deceived.

If you agree with the world on the major issues, then satan has deceived you.

Propaganda

Propaganda, the calculated manipulation

of public opinion to serve political and ideological interests is pervasive.

It turns out that those screaming "racism!" the most, are the worst racists of all.

“You shall know the

truth and the

truth shall make you

free.” John 8:32

Dr Peter Hammond

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