It has been impossible to keep up with all the misrepresentation and slander that has been thrown in the direction of those who identify as Kinism. Just recently I came across yet another slanderous piece written by the head of the Christian Reformed Church’s (CRCNA) head of race relations. That piece can be located here though if you read it you’ll learn nothing about Kinism that is representative of what Kinists believe. It’s just another hack piece as coming from the pen of someone who has imbibed the spirit of the age.
I honestly don’t know if it is a case of low IQ that finds so many people so consistently misrepresenting Kinism or whether it is just a matter of people having been so thoroughly brainwashed on the subject of race realism that they just can’t get outside of their bubble. A third option is that these folks really have reinterpreted Christianity through a cultural Marxist grid. The chap who wrote this piece is a known quantity and I have pretty much concluded that on this subject he is just not capable of understanding what he is writing about. However, he is not the only one in the CRCNA who has slandered me, the Church I serve, and Kinism. There was a chap named Ken Bieber who served on the staff at the CRCNA church in Lansing, Michigan (at the time… that church has since left the CRCNA because they supported the LGBTQ cause in defiance of the denomination) who was quoted in a hit piece by the Lansing State Journal written years ago.
I am pursuing this all again in light of how the Southern Poverty Law Center, who at roughly the same time that the CRCNA was slandering the Church I serve and myself, has finally been exposed as a grifter organization thus giving credence to the truth that like the CRCNA, the SPLC slandered me and slandered the Church I serve.
The article linked above opens with this;
1. What is kinism?
Kinism is a movement that began in the early 2000s in the United States in some Reformed theological circles and churches. It espouses the belief that God has ordained separation of races in all areas of life. Quoting the theology of John Calvin, Abraham Kupyer, and Louis Berkhof, kinists believe that God, through Old Testament witness, rejected all interracial marriages. With this in mind, kinists would use the force of civil government to establish policies similar to apartheid in South Africa before 1994.
1.) Kinism has been around since for millennium. The Anthology books, “Who Is My Neighbor,” and “A Survey of Racialism in Christian Sacred Tradition” proves, in spades, that Kinism is just basic Christianity 101. As such Reggie Smith is just embarrassingly wrong when he writes that the Kinist movement began in the early 2000s in the US.
2.) Reggie Smith is correct though in noticing that Kinist quote from Calvin, Kuyper, Berkhof, Vos, Hodge, DeJong and a host of Reformed Christians. The reason we quote from these chaps is because these chaps were proto-Kinists, which is just another way of saying that they were Biblical Christians. Reggie Smith and the ilk that disagree with the Reformed Fathers are in no position to condemn Kinism as heresy unless they are going to be consistent (something not to be expected from these lowbrows) and condemn Calvin, Kuyper, Berkhof, Vos, etc. as being heretics. Given how far left Reggie is, he may well be willing to do that.
3.) It is not true that Kinism, as a variegated movement, rejects all inter-racial marriages. That is just a bald un-truth. I suppose that Reggie is a little sensitive about this issue since Reggie married inter-racially and apparently faced some disapproval at the time of his marriage from his now in-laws. It may be the case that some Kinists reject all inter-racial marriages, but it is not the case that all Kinists reject all inter-racial marriages. Since Reggie is writing about the movement as a whole when he makes this claim it is an errant claim. I have consistently said that while I think that, generally speaking, inter-racial marriages are unwise, I insist that once such a marriage is contracted the Church should do all it can to support such marriages apart from allowing their own children to enter into such marriages. The Church should also discourage such marriages.
3.) I run in Kinist circles. I know very few Kinists who would advocate the use the force of civil government to establish policies similar to apartheid in South Africa before 1994. This looks to be just a rhetorical ploy to make people scared of Kinism. What Kinist might do is press for legislation that puts an end to Hollywood and advertisers forever putting in our faces inter-racial marriages as if they are some kind of norm. If that much was done, we wouldn’t need the force of civil government since people just do not marry inter-racially on a large enough scale without the culture pushing it to have to be concerned that it will become a norm.
Keep in mind that Reggie Smith has been in error before when raising the specter of South Africa;
Setting the Record Straight … I Was Right Then, And I Am Correct Now – Iron Ink
There you have it. On just this first bullet point by Reggie Smith we see how errant the man is on the subject. There are four more bullet points that good old Reggie raises and we are going to see how he is errant on those as well. It might be said that Reggie Smith is as accurate in his reporting as the SPLC is accurate in their labeling of “hate groups.”
