Christian Clarity Review

January 27, 2008

A note on racism

An observation on seeing a documentary on antisemitism in America.

Those who are deceived they have free will actually do not understand what it is they do when speaking to new creatures in Jesus Christ. Neither do they understand what it is they do speaking to those who have grown up in a society with at least a reputation for having a significant number of us.

When you are deceived you have free will, you want to use that will wherever it may be of benefit to you and others. You perceive of any limitation, even a falsely idealized one not simply as a slap at you but as a slap at “your kind” ..as in your family. In addition, you perceive of that limitation as one imposed on you without even a chance at getting to know you. Specifically, you perceive of yourself as a partaker and doer of a common emotional rubric that takes experience, smarts and “gifts of God” you must manipulate successfully and you are being denigrated as if you, simply by virtue of being you, could not possibly do those supposed common things “correctly”. Thus a kind of automatic bigotry machine is set in place that is in reality caused by the mis-perception of anyone having free will at all.

Take the statement: “Jews were denied full access to all areas of American life.” You can actually insert any other group: “blacks”, “Catholics” “the Irish”, “Muslims” etc as immigrant groups who have as their foundational outlook that they have free will and everyone else supposedly does too.

First, the statement assumes there is a monolithic thing call “American life” of which certain people are partaking and taking steps to prevent other people from partaking of –which is simply a pretext for looking at your neighbors as a menu you order from as you go along and that they must comply immediately to full your order else they are “bigots” based expressly on the mere supposed existence of their supposed free will and unique fruits of free will in each family.

Second, Jews , for instance, who have a persecution complex, never think they are falsely accusing others of not parsing out to Jews pieces of the fruits of a freedom that does not in fact exist ( and so those fruits don’t exist either ). They always think in terms of others withholding from Jews what the free will must surely have already produced in others as human beings. Counting themselves as human beings quite rightly, quite wrongly seem to have proved to themselves they are being conspired against to deprive them of some hidden good enjoyed by non-Jews.

The actual individuality of every human being is turned against each other as weapons in the lie of free will. The uniqueness of the individual, that none can escape, is used as a functional unique factory/black box wherein free will plus life goes in one end and unique stuff is theorized to come out the other. Mere inescapable uniqueness is turned to a perpetual source of accusation. Real persecution of Jews ( and others as groups for the genuine premise of simply belonging to that group ) in other ways simply adds fuel to that fire and the whole thing turns over on itself as self-sustaining as long as they all have the non-creating speech. The ( insert any minority group here ) as a whole come off looking to those who are continually falsely accused of having free will but supposedly using it incorrectly as the Syrians looked to the Jews of old:

1Kings 20:5-11 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben-Hadad saying: I sent to thee indeed, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; but to-morrow about this time I will send my servants to thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thy sight, they shall put in their hand and take away. And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not. And all the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken not, nor consent. And he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again. And Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me! And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him , Let not him that girdeth on boast himself as he that putteth off!

..as simple trouble makers who do nothing but delight in accusing others over nothing for nothing with no benefit for any except monetary compensation that is in reality unjust. And do so proudly as a peculiar virtue of their group and then wonder why “people hate (insert minority group)”. They would have us search our pockets for something we already know is not there and cannot give them even if it was.

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If you really understood that, then you could end up with a novel excerpt that might go ( without getting into background character development to know why who is saying what as a particular individual: )

The band saw cut a high pitched protest from the birch log as it hit and sawdust flew out of the chute. Arthur was waving his hands over the noise and pointing to the side of the shed, mouthing the word “(minority group) ” quietly. We understood. Bobby throws the switch and the engine of the saw begins winding down. As the noise dies we begin patting our pockets just as a group of ( people who live in their own minds solely as a minority status..) walk around the corner. We act surprised to see them and keep patting. After a few seconds I look over at Arthur, shrug and hold up empty hands.

It seems to satisfy ( them ). Off they go, looking back derisively at the power of their former threats. Dad said we had to do the patting to avoid a fight. He said God said so.

Bobby hits the switch again and the big saw starts in on the log.

A popping sound erupts. Like firecrackers, but subdued compared to the saw. Arthur jerks and falls as I stare. I scramble on my way over to him. Then I can’t run. Bobby ducks behind the lumber pile and runs.

I lay here dull and breathing, concentrating on a gurgling in my chest that comes out of nowhere. A shadow approaches; rolls me over, feels in my pocket and pulls out my cigarettes.

In that ( minority accent ) he says, as he looks at my stomach and then my face, holding up the cigarettes and my lighter, “Ain’t got none, huh?”

For the first time in my life I really know it isn’t about anything I have done to ( them). It isn’t the cigarettes or the nicotine patch he’s wearing either. I know for certain that God is not just an idea that gets to be paid.

It’s a kind of peace, that even years later I haven’t forgotten: 1 ) Their best honesty is a lie they can’t stop. 2. ) Jesus Christ has caused all of this. 3.) And He’s holy.

We bought the guns, we went to war and slaughtered ‘em in the end. But honestly? I never hated ‘em. I felt sorry for them and me when I wasn’t thinking of God. And I still feel guilty for that.

I was supposed to be rejoicing the whole time.

All the best people said that.

I know to this day if (they ) were still here like ( they ) were, they would honestly mistake my guilt for proof they were right. And I know I passed a test. I loved them as myself and they were my enemy all along. My guilt proved it.”

God probably laughs over how simple I am. But He still keeps me faithful. I am ruined of this world, already passing away and yet born again in Christ.

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Racism and the false accusation of racism is based as a collective on the lie of free will and the unavoidable uniqueness of each human being, even as the lie of free will is contradictory and claims that uniqueness is not an inherent part of being a human being but must be built and ‘recognized” via / using the “free” will. The whole thing is then exacerbated because any particular group then claims special status in the human race because of their own false perceptions that in every way are their best honesty as being peculiarly “mis-understand” and end up saying things like “I’m ( minority ) . You wouldn’t understand.” as a fundamental tenet of being ‘them’.

That is in addition to issues of blood and familial connections.

Jesus Christ was sent, as part of His purpose to divide. He has accomplished it by holding some in ignorance of who He really Is and what that means for the whole of reality and revealing others as His disciples and flock to those who cannot hear Him. No one makes sense to anyone else and yet some are deceived they must make sense of everything –with free will.

We’re not going to end up killing Jews. It’ll be the Islamics and those that support them. To be faithful to Jesus Christ is to be a heretic to humanity in its fallen understanding. They don’t think or feel like us. That’s simply how it is.

Matthew 10:33-39 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will *I* also deny before my Father who is in the heavens. Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law; and they of his household shall be a man’s enemies. He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me. And he who does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen

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