Church heresies that Encourage American socio-political dysfunction – Part 3, Racism

This is the third part of a series of articles showing how certain un-biblical attitudes in the Church have helped to create the current political situation in America – that is, being on the verge of accepting fascism.

What is Fascism?

Fascism is an anti-democratic authoritarian form of government. It often rises to power through the corporate propagation of nationalist and racist propaganda (lies). Once in power, fascists suppress internal opposition through state violence and mass imprisonment. (Definitions are in the blog post.)

The Plan

Republican strategists have recently begun to openly float the idea that "democracy" (representative government as defined in the US Constitution) can and should be canceled if the “right people” get to stay in charge. (A conservative plan to call a constitutional convention to reinstitute legal white-supremacy has been in the works for decades.) The kind of government that they are proposing is a form of fascism that will eliminate the basic voting rights of Blacks and other Americans who are not aligned with the corporate right-wing nationalism that the oligarchs are seeking to enforce. This desperate eleventh-hour effort to prevent the loss of white rule in America proves that the right’s pretended patriotic reverence for the US Constitution has never been anything other than rank hypocrisy.  

Do the “ends justify the means”?

One small problem for the “win-at-all-costs” republicans who consider themselves to be Christians - fascism is the very definition of anti-christian evil. It relies on hate, lies, and racist violence to gain and maintain power. Hitler came to power by stoking the resentment of Germans who could not accept that they lost WWI (1918). They wanted someone to blame, a scapegoat. The Nazi’s offered up a racial minority, the Jews. Do you recognize a pattern? 

In their rise to power. the Nazis openly stated that they were only emulating America’s racial policies and though it has been purposefully forgotten, the Nazis were supported by a vast number of racist Americans. There was a mainstream Nazi movement in the US that lionized Hitler and actually supported the Nazis throughout WWII. Hitler’s satanic fascist dream of racist world domination resulted in a world war that ultimately cost the lives of 50 million people (WWII). 1 Peter 5:8-9, John 8:44 Who can say what might be the long-term outcome if modern American fascists get their way – we already have mass imprisonment, what else might they come up with? It certainly brings a number of apocalyptic (end of the world) scenarios to mind.

Ironically, although many white American political christians feel empowered to denounce their political enemies as demonic, it is they who are standing at the very precipice of hell for willfully rejecting the BIBLE’s overriding lesson – to love your neighbor as yourself. Mat 22:37–39. They are literally driving people away from CHRIST with hypocrisy and hate for the sake of achieving political dominion. Rom 2:24 So this is my point; to ask political Christians if they are willing to risk their eternal salvation to have their way in this world? JESUS rejected his disciples' desire for worldly dominion. 

A news flash from the past

Will the American right-wing political church actually accept fascism to maintain their vision of white supremacist American exceptionalism? News flash – it has always done so in the past. Unfortunately, many unbelievers blame this on Christianity itself, instead of blaming the greed and racism of those who try to justify their race pride with feigned religion.

A little history

The US Constitution officially mandated that America become a fascist police state in Article 4. Every state government was required by Federal Law to detain, question, and arrest Blacks who had escaped from slavery and return them to their tormentors. In other words, the entire country was a fascist police state arrayed against innocent Black people. The Fugitive Slave Act was codified as federal law in 1793 and again in 1850. When the law was strengthened in 1850, the refusal by some states to directly participate in the slave system was cited as a major grievance by the confederates in their (Civil War) articles of succession. 

Historically, many American church denominations supported chattel slavery and thus the fascist police state that enforced slavery. They falsified the teachings of the BIBLE to support the genocide, enslavement, and oppression of Africans and Natives. They employed the very same authoritarian propaganda against their victims that we now recognize as fascism: they are evil, inferior beings, … it is us vs them, …if we don’t destroy them - they will destroy us, etc. It was all done for the love of money and greed and pride continue to be the motivations today. 1 Timothy 6:10 

The “woke” history that they fear:

Even though the Fugitive Slave Act was repealed in 1864, the fascist police state arrayed against Black people remained in effect through Jim Crow laws, lynching, jury nullification, debt peonage, disenfranchisement, economic racism, for-profit prisons, and police violence. (See definitions below.)

The idea that these simple historical truths might become common knowledge is apparently what all the mercenary anti-woke political prostitutes are pretending to fear. Why? Is it because these truths negate any possible spiritual justification for white christian-nationalist rule as the population numbers begin to change and white people no longer hold a numerical majority? Is it because acknowledging the evils of American history will delegitimize the trope that America is justified in all its imperialist actions due to some sort of white, nominally christian, exceptionalism? Is America’s ruling class promoting culture-war simply because the propaganda of American exceptionalism ultimately legitimizes the capitalist power of their military industrial complex? (See definitions.)  

Love your enemy – will racists (or fascists) be in Heaven?

It is amazing that any committed racist can actually believe they are justified in the eyes of GOD, that is, that their actions and attitudes are acceptable to GOD when they oppose the BIBLE? An overwhelming number of recent political disclosures prove that if you vote republican, you are voting for racism – whether you can admit it to yourself or not. (There is no shortage of high-profile republicans who readily admit that they are disgusted with what the Republican Party has become.) Over and over, we see American white people expressing vile murderous racism but when confronted, they simply claim that they are not racists. Such people are living in a state of political and religious delusion brought on by the hateful satanic propaganda that they greedily consume.

People, please remind your right-wing relatives and acquaintances (who claim to be Christians) that JESUS likened hatred and contempt for others (racism) to murder. Mat 5:21-26 The BIBLE tells us that no murderers are allowed in heaven – disqualifying sinfulness is as much about ongoing attitude as it is about action.

Definitions

Authoritarian government – (Enforcement of) blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. In government, authoritarianism denotes any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people. (Britannica)

Jim Crow Laws - Any state or local laws that enforced or legalized racial segregation in America. These laws lasted for almost 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until around 1968, and their main purpose was to legalize the marginalization of African Americans. (GSU)

Lynching – Extra-judicial murder; to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority. Since the Civil War, thousands of African Americans (some innocent, others purely as acts of terrorism) have been lynched by white mobs; often in demonically gruesome ways, followed by ritual desecration of the bodies.

Jury nullification - Jury nullification is when a jury votes to acquit a defendant despite clear evidence that the defendant violated the law. (Blacks Law Dictionary) Jury nullification has historically been a normal occurrence in America, especially the south. It was/is used to deny justice to Black victims of white perpetrators. The 1992 LA Riots were the result of jury nullification when a mostly white jury seemed to flagrantly ignore video evidence showing the brutal and prolonged police beating of a black motorist.  

Debt peonage – Defined as a condition of enforced servitude by which the servitor (debtor) is compelled to labor against his will in liquidation of some debt or obligation. (Justica) In the post-civil war American south, poor Black people were often arrested on a made-up charge of “vagrancy,” ie, not having any money on them. They were fined, and then made to pay off the fine by being forced to do hard labor on a plantation farm. It was used as an extension of slavery in conditions that were as bad or worse.

Disenfranchisement - The state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote, eg, disenfranchisement of minority voters. Disenfranchisement was used to enforce economic racism against Black Americans after the official repeal of slavery. Lynching and other forms of terroristic violence were used against Blacks to keep them from demanding or exercising voting rights.

Economic racism – The systematic denial of opportunity in education, employment, and access to capitol that has led to the average Black family having less than 10% of the personal wealth possessed by the typical white American family. Substandard schools in poor areas vs well-equipped schools in rich areas is a prime example of ongoing economic racism in America.

Exceptionalism – The idea that the United States of America is a unique and even morally superior country for historical, ideological, or religious reasons. (Britannica) The belief in exceptionalism is based entirely on hypocrisy and an agreed-upon false history.

Military industrial complex – A reference to all the components of a nation’s military establishment, including the private businesses involved in producing weapons and other military equipment. President Dwight D. Eisenhower …warned that the growth of the defense industry posed a threat to democracy. (Political Dictionary) The Military industrial complex has granted itself direct access to taxpayer funds in the name of national defense. (After WWII, the Department of War was rebranded as the Department of Defense.) It is actually an evil corporate business, a merchant of death that forces the Government to buy overpriced weapons systems that it does not need and then creates the war scenarios where the weapons are used, so they can sell more. The only purpose is to create more profit to satiate the insane greed of the oligarchy.