So, I received in the mail today Rev. Drew Poplin’s “The Canvas of Creation; A Biblical Response to the Heresy of Racial Superiority.”
When I opened the book Drewski provides his unique definition of Kinism;
“Kinism – a belief system that advocates for racial and ethnic separation, claiming that such segregation is divinely ordained. The word is derived from “kin,” and promotes the idea of ‘maintaining one’s own kin,’ or ‘loving one’s own kind’, as Biblical ideals.”
1.) The first sentence above just happens to be verbatim from AI as provided by Google.
2.) Note that all because someone advocates for racial and ethnic separation that does not necessarily mean that they are advocating for “racial superiority.” Yet, in Drewski’s book title he insists that Kinism is equivalent to holding to racial superiority. As I am often referred to as “the King of the Kinists” allow me to suggests that most of the Kinists I know will say that patterns of superiority and inferiority run through all different races. Some races are superior to others in one way while inferior to others in other ways.
3.) In terms of “segregation” Kinists merely agree with the greatest theologian of all time
“The ancient fathers… were concerned that the ties of kinship itself should not be loosened as generation succeeded generation, should not diverge too far, so that they finally ceased to be ties at all. And so for them it was a matter of religion to restore the bond of kinship by means of the marriage tie before kinship became too remote—to call kinship back, as it were, as it disappeared into the distance.”
City of God, book XV, Chapter 16
4.) This second sentence is a wee bit astounding;
The word (Kinsim) is derived from “kin,” and promotes the idea of ‘maintaining one’s own kin,’ or ‘loving one’s own kind’, as Biblical ideals.”
Now, understand that Drewski is going to argue in this booklet that God is so displeased with Kinism that God desires His church to label it Heresy (a denial of the Faith). The Christian faith, per Drewski, is adamantly opposed to those who champion the idea of maintaining one’s own and is adamantly opposed to those who insist that we are to “love our own kind.” We are being told right out of the gate that the Christian faith considers heretics all those who would say that, “God desires us to maintain our family lines,” and who would say that, “God desires us to love our own kind.” Drewski wants us to believe that anyone who holds these two convictions;
b.) ‘loving one’s own kind’
are guilty of championing heresy and so are outside the Christian faith.
Allow me to finish by observing that since there is no universal consensus on the definition of Kinism I intend to give my definition of Kinism;
“Kinism – a belief system that has historically been considered just one doctrine of many in basic Christianity that recognizes how God has distinguished the various races and/or ethnicities (Acts 17:26). In light of how God has distinguished peoples Kinism, as one doctrine in basic Christianity, agrees with God and proclaims loudly that they agree with God. The word is derived from “kin,” and promotes the idea of ‘maintaining one’s own kin,’ or ‘loving one’s own kind’, as is both implicitly and explicitly taught in Scripture. Kinism is merely the restoration of an older idea called the Ordo Amoris which taught that the right or proper ordering of one’s love, based on the closeness of the connection between oneself and the potential recipient of love.
Finally, Kinism holds that those who are opposed to this definition and characterize ‘Kinism’ as heresy are themselves heretics who are to be marked out and avoided.”
