Christianity vs. Racism

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You mentioned Antifa. This past weekend in Charlottesville, it was a horrible scene, where you had white nationalists, people who can rightly be defined as racists, and you had

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Antifa clashing. You had a person who was actually killed, many people injured. Talk to us, for a moment first, as we get into the

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Antifa discussion and socialism, talk to us about racism. It's something they accused you of,

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Doug, right there in Indiana University, oddly. They accused you of racism. Talk to us about this issue of racism from a biblical perspective.

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On the one hand, as I think I say in the movie, quoting someone else, is that racism is anybody who's winning an argument with a liberal.

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So if you're pressing the point, if you're winning an argument with a liberal, their trump card is to call you a racist and dismiss you as a racist.

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So of course, scripturally speaking, Christians know that Jesus came, bled, and died, rose again from the dead, in order to overcome, among other things, ethnic hostility between Jew and Gentile, as it says in Ephesians, to make one new man out of the two.

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So we are all created, red and yellow, black and white. We are all created in the image of God, and Jesus came to recreate us according to the image of God, repairing the damage done by sin.

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And the people who will praise the Lord for the blood of Jesus cleansing them will be from, as Revelation says, from every tribe, every language, every nation.

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The church of Jesus Christ is cosmopolitan. And I want to argue that Christ is the only way that you can overcome ethnic divisions and hostilities, racial animosity.

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If you try to dispense with Christ, then people are always going to default to their own tribe.

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And what I said earlier, that secular liberalism, their center is giving way, and you can tell that because they've been inculcating identity politics for decades now.

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And what's happening, if you look at the Charlottesville white supremacists, white nationalists, white separatists, supremacists and separatists are not necessarily the same thing, but you've got this crowd there.

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That group was almost certainly not educated in white supremacist academies.

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They were educated in the government schools, and they were taught identity politics, and then they went and looked in the mirror to see what group they belonged to.

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And if you don't have a transcendent reality overarching the whole thing, like the

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Lord Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Father, you're going to give way to this sort of identity politics.

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And the kind of scrum in the streets that you're seeing now, you can only expect more of it.

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Apart from Jesus, that's our future. That's exactly right. Doug, why does socialism suck?

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Yeah. Number one, it has the problem of wanting to defy the law of God.

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So, if someone says, are you against socialism? I'd say, yes,

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I'm against socialism. My religion prohibits it. My faith, my Christian faith excludes socialism.

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And they say, how so? Well, we have this quaint little code of ethics that has this provision, thou shalt not steal.

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Socialism is driven by envy and malice, and the whole egalitarian impulse to level everything is an impulse that is scratching at difference and wants to eradicate every difference.

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And if they can't elevate themselves, they want to tear down the other, and they want to do it in economics.

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Feminism is this impulse in the relationship between the sexes. Socialism is this impulse when it comes to finances and so on.

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Egalitarianism is the central rot. And what you're wanting to do is you're wanting to rebel against the station that God assigned to you.

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So, God gave me certain limitations. I'm in the box called my personal identity.

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I am me, and I can't be a bird on the wing. I can't be the moon. I can't be somebody else.

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I need to just receive what God has given me with gratitude and not try to level everything.

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Next week with Jeff Durbin. The late night show with the unpopular opinion. Tuesday only on Facebook Live.