This site serves as a blog for my pastoral ministry which includes commentary on culture, random topics related to Biblical studies, pastoral ministry, and Christianity in general. The site also serves as an unofficial virtual office for my seminary students and other friends. The goal is to provide encouragement to saints and direction to sinners and seekers.





Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Real Racism



Real Racism

I’d like to strike a nerve with the consciences of Americans. This note should be considered a religious one and not a political one (although these two elements intersect and overlap out of necessity when it comes to culture and government). Racism is afoot. But the biggest and most long-lasting element of racism is not individuals being picked out and picked on by cops. The systemic problem (if there is indeed a systemic problem – our government is set up so that anyone of any race can have gracious opportunity – just ask Morgan Freeman[1]) is the wiping out of a generation of kids before they come out of the womb. Organizations offer to kill the unborn humans, and people will actually pay these organizations to do so.

The largest demographic of the population to visit and utilize abortion clinics needs to wake up and see that these clinics, funded and defended by the Left are wiping their race out, literally. There is a movement to stop black genocide, found on the website Abortion73. Grand Rapids Right to Life states, “Abortion is the number one killer of black lives in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, abortion kills more black people than HIV, homicide, diabetes, accident, cancer, and heart disease … combined.”[2] The Guttmacher Institute has this to say, “This much is true: In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women.”[3] According to the CDC, recent stats show that “Among the 32 areas that reported cross-classified race/ethnicity data for 2016, non-Hispanic white women and non-Hispanic black women accounted for the largest percentages of all abortions (35.0% and 38.0%, respectively) . . . .”[4] And in the same year (2016), there were 623,471[5] abortions and therefore 236, 918 black babies were killed by abortion in the United States in one year. This is racism of the worst kind. And it’s effective. And it needs to stop. God had only horrendous judgement for those pagan cultures who practiced infanticide and genocide. God places no premium on funding this evil, turning a blind eye to it, or using red herring-like tactics to veer the culture’s gaze away from it. It needed to stop, and it needs to stop.

The consciences of men and women that God placed in them seeks value, purpose, and guidance. But neither of these goods are found in culture and don’t derive from culture. These are goods offered to humankind by the Creator. We are created in His image and therefore we have value. A poor man is no less valuable than a rich man. A person who can’t read or can’t think critically has no less value than an educated man, a non-Caucasian has no less value than a Caucasian, and an unborn child (who is living and kicking) has no less value than a 30-year old.


God has commanded that His people stand up for the helpless, the orphans, and the widows. Our culture is inundated with fatherless homes, women having to make it on their own and support and rear children on their own. Kids are thereby orphaned. But this is the case only if they are lucky enough to make it out of the womb. Widows are made because of disintegration of the biblical, traditional family. And all of these ills are supported by the very organizations that get the loudest voice and longest airplay in mainstream media. All the while more and more minority babies are killed in the womb and fatherless homes continue to abound. In responding to responses to the 1979 C. Everett Koop-based film, Francis Schaeffer stated that with this film “. . . we observed something very instructive. The call for a public stand against abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and against the general eradication of the unique dignity and worth of all human beings was not widely accepted at first. Many of the evangelical leadership either were totally silent about abortion, or qualified what they did say about abortion to such an extent that they really said nothing, or less than nothing, as far as the battle for human life was concerned.”[6]
Racism is huge but it’s being perpetrated in plain sight and atoned by secular media and leftists. This is truly “systemic racism” in America if it exists system-wide. These entities and people are very good at pulling the wool over the eyes of their victims. God-fearing people must speak up in an effort to protect the helpless, namely, the unborn of all races.

So yes, racism is afoot, but I think we’re missing it because we’re allowing the cloud of politics and emotionalism to shroud the truth. And the fear of man (instead of the fear of God) and allegiance to political expediency are winning the day.



[2] https://www.grrtl.org/genocide/. Accessed July 1, 2020.
[5] https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm. Accessed July 1, 2020. This number is a lot higher – at 890,000 at https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/; accessed July 1, 2020.
[6] Schaeffer, Francis. A Christian Manifesto. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1982.


Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)