America’s Original Sin—Racism
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 8 months ago
Robert S. Harvey writing at Education Week.
As schools fumble to talk about America’s original sin—racism—well-meaning white teachers (and some Black folks) often assume that cultural relevance equals applauding individual progress.
You schmuck. I hate nothing worse than people pretending to be something they’re not.
Jesus was a good man and great example – countries can have original sin – God loves everyone and we’re all just brothers and sisters in the family of God – and so on with the claptrap.
If you believe those things you’re not a Christian. Jesus is God (No, He didn’t become a god because of his obedience or anything else – He was always God). Countries cannot have original sin. Jesus was clear in John 8:44-45.
Original sin has to do with the federal headship of Adam. The WCF.
I. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.
II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion, with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.
III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
And I’ve been clear.
” … the Biblical doctrine is, as Deuteronomy 24:16 makes clear, one of individual responsibility … guilt cannot be shifted to others or passed on to the people around a man. Guilt is non-transferable; a disposition or nature can be inherited, but not guilt.”
One man’s sin does not redound to another man’s sin. And no, I’m not going to give anyone “reparations.”
So if you believe any of these false doctrines, call yourself something other than a Christian.
And to Mr. Harvey, you’re an impostor. Stop [mis]appropriating my theology. I don’t appreciate it at all.
On August 20, 2020 at 12:48 pm, Fred said:
I see that your house is on fire sir, that’s a great way to barbecue some steaks. Telling people that their house is on fire is the original sin.
Dear pastors your nation is on fire but don’t tell anybody least of all your congregants. That would be rude. They need to know first of all that there is NOTHING they can do about it. Don’t tell anybody that their country is about burn; this might sully the great name of Ezekiel, and Isaiah, and John Baptist, and, Daniel, and Malachi, and all the great men of God who came before you. I mean they just minded their own business and submitted to Romans 13 and didn’t even worry about it.
Nobody’s house is on fire. Move along. Nothing to see here.
On August 20, 2020 at 1:02 pm, blake said:
I glanced at the article and I can’t believe this idiot thinks bringing in examples of professional accomplishment by Blacks is a bad thing.
So, are Blacks to be relegated to the entertainment industry of the NBA or NFL? Nothing more then minstrels put on display for the entertainment of others?
Wow.
On August 20, 2020 at 2:17 pm, Josh said:
@Blake,
The ideas/instructions in this article aren’t novel in the slightest – this is regurgitated indoctrination from the unholy triune marriage of critical theory, cultural-marxism, and postmodern philosophy. You can thank everyone from Marx to Derrida for this bullshit.
The attempt is to neuter any inclination to think about things at the level of the individual. Why? Because they absolutely hate the individual. They mistake the observations of measurement and statistics for truth, and pretend to seek to act upon those while ignoring the individual. This enables their power-lust. They’re really no more sophisticated than Nietzsche in this regard, and they’re repeating sins of the Soviet and Maoist past.
In verbal debate, I’ve pointed out that the civil rights era figurehead, Martin Luther King, Jr., espoused a doctrine of individual responsibility and charity, representing an inbuilt acknowledgement that caring for a group – a statistical abstraction – is literally impossible. The response has been programmed into them – I’ve received the same response from different people at different times: “But Martin Luther wasn’t the only civil rights leader,” as if this is some illuminating point, and that of course people like Malcolm X existed and thought differently. When I simply point out that Malcolm X was a wrong and angry man, there is no rebuttal, for there can be none.
The thrust of this is that history must be recontextualized so that it can be “learned and internalized,” whatever that means. In quality education curricula, student development is best understood as needing to occur simultaneously across multiple dimensions, so there is good education on everything from philosophy to history, science, maths, etc. Here there is only indoctrination.
And finally the call to action. This is important not for any absurd short-term restructuring of capitalization habits or rebellion of dress codes, but to prime the youth’s behaviour and reasoning faculties for violent rebellion down the line – and not too far down the line. In his last sentence here he betrays the source of his ideological indoctrination: Derrida and the rest of the French deconstructionists. They were a pathetic group of men who knew exactly what they were up to when they cooked up and published their poison. They hated themselves, hated mankind, and spread their hateful programming far and wide. Robert S. Harvey is simply spreading his programming, which is exactly what he’s been programmed to do.
On August 20, 2020 at 2:48 pm, Herschel Smith said:
But he wraps it all up in words unique to my theology, not his. He’s a thief.