“Racism is … about the MATERIALISTIC DETERMINISM that GENES DETERMINE CULTURE.”
Bojidar Marinov
Quote from 2018
God made man body and soul. To insist that man’s genetics alone accounts for his culture would indeed be materialism and so sinful. However, to deny that man’s corporeal existence has any impact upon or determination of culture is just pure Gnosticism. (The opposite error to Materialism.) To say that it is only man’s thinking (never mind the question of how does one think without being corporeal) or what he believes that alone determines culture is a kind of disembodied mysticism (Gnosticism).
Just as we could never agree with the Marxist materialistic determinism, neither can we embrace the heresy that holds that man’s corporeal existence does not work, together with man’s incorporeal reality to create culture. Man is body and soul and so culture is theology (what a man thinketh in his heart) poured over man’s corporeal reality which is ethnically covenantal as well as individually covenantal.
Race is not everything per the materialist, but neither is it nothing per Bojidar Marinov, Joel McDurmon, and American Vision (in 2018).
This sloppy slinging around of 20th century Trotsky created sins (racism) is now the ideology du jour at American Vision (2018). Christians would do well to both quit writing checks and quit supporting American vision until American Vision repents of their strange ideological hybrid Gnosto-Cultural Marxism.
May God have mercy on their souls and grant them repentance.
May we be constantly examining ourselves to make sure we do not mishandle God’s word.
Appendix
Joel McDurmon was released / resigned from American Vision and though AV is not yet fully following the teachings of R. J. Rushdoony it is certainly on a better arc than it was when Dr. McDurmon held court with that organization and we are pleased with that.
Sometimes I find myself in complete agreement with what you write (this post is one of those times). Other times I vehemently disagree. … And so I continue to read your posts.
Welcome aboard.
If you search American Vision archives by author it appears
they have purged all McDurmon articles also. His name does not
come up in search by author.
Guess everyone is afraid of history these days.
Just erase or dont even post something you dont agree with.
Its the negative as well as the positive that enables thinkers to learn.
We just dont have many thinkers today.
Amen
Here is Gary Norths response to my inquiry regarding Joel M
resignation.
What happened to Joel McDurmon at American Vision Gray Bell 3:15 PM Aug 12,2020
new I cant even find his past articles when searching under auth … Gray Bell 3:15 PM Aug 12,2020
new 1. Fired. 2. Scrubbed. He began law school … GaryNorth 3:46 PM Aug 12,2020
new I didn’t agree with everything he wrote while at American Vi … BuckeyeExpat1 10:02 PM Aug 12,2020
new I wasn’t paying attention to whatever it was he did. Here’s … Belaq 8:08 PM Aug 12,2020
new With respect to the article on McDurmon, this is inaccurate: … GaryNorth 5:51 AM Aug 13,2020
new “I published the book. Bahnsen wrote it. It is astounding th … Belaq 8:40 AM Aug 13,2020
new He has a website at lambsreign.com … delenn 5:18 AM Aug 13,2020
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Posted Aug 12,2020 3:15 PM Gray Bell
I cant even find his past articles when searching under authors!
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Posted Aug 12,2020 3:46 PM GaryNorth
1. Fired.
2. Scrubbed.
He began law school yesterday.
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Posted Aug 12,2020 10:02 PM BuckeyeExpat1
I didn’t agree with everything he wrote while at American Vision, but his book on Slavery and Christian America was very good as of course was his book on Localism. As an attorney myself, I look forward to what he does in the legal profession.
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Posted Aug 12,2020 8:08 PM Belaq
I wasn’t paying attention to whatever it was he did. Here’s a relevant article:
https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/03/19/after-leaving-theonomy-and-getting-woke-joel-mcdurmon-out-at-american-vision/
Note: Pulpit and Pen isn’t what I would call a reliable source. Still, perhaps useful.
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Posted Aug 13,2020 5:51 AM GaryNorth
With respect to the article on McDurmon, this is inaccurate:
“Gary North, McDurmon’s father-in-law and Rushdoony’s son-in-law wrote in No Other Standard (pg 211), “The most distinctive aspect of theonomic ethics, if not also its most controversial application, is its endorsement of the continuing validity and social justice of the penal sanctions stipulated within the law of God.”
I published the book. Bahnsen wrote it. It is astounding that the critic confused this. http://bit.ly/gbnos
He added this:
“In a concillatory post, DeMar explains that the donations to American Vision have fallen through the floor (I suspsect the downturn coincides precisely with McDurmon’s abandonment of theonomy and embrace of progressivism).”
The finances of AV were solvent. He and the treasurer had reported quarterly to the board.
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Posted Aug 13,2020 8:40 AM Belaq
“I published the book. Bahnsen wrote it. It is astounding that the critic confused this. http://bit.ly/gbnos“
And with that goes the last bit of trust I had for Pulpit and Pen.
From what I can tell, Durmon had begun to write a number of articles influenced by the intersectional worldview of the left, and this resulted in his scrubbing. Is this correct?
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Posted Aug 13,2020 5:18 AM delenn
He has a website at lambsreign.com