Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
“The migration tsunami signifies the resolute, brutal and compelling commencement of the globalization of the world, which has been predicted for some time. It does not begin with the creation of a one world government, or the creation of a one world economic system or a unified global financial system (all of this is secondary), but with race mixing, the crossbreeding of races. Herein we see the confirmation of our thesis that the main objective of the globalists is not only wealth and power, but they also wish to change mankind, as a species, beyond recognition.” Gennadi Bondarev The Migration Tsunami
And it is not possible to succeed to change mankind via the cross-breeding of the races without at the same time also having to cross-breed all the religions. The great new mulatto man will worship a great new mulatto God via a great new mulatto religion living in a great new mulatto culture. As we have said on Iron Ink many times before one can not successfully pursue multiculturalism without at the same time pursuing multi-racialism and multi-faithism. This is so because of how closely intertwined race, culture, and faith are with one another. To pursue the cross-breeding of any one of them requires the cross-breeding of all of them in order to be successful in achieving the desired homogeneity.
Now, we have arrived at a time where this is not a thing to be observed in polite company. Infused with the anesthetic of egalitarianism these truths are not to be observed, never mind baldly stated. However, a disciple of Christ realizes that the undoubted catholic Christian faith is at stake here. If the globalist NWO elite agenda of “racial diversity” is achieved a religious godless pagan homogeneity will be achieved. In the same way, if the globalist NWO elite agenda of “cultural diversity” is achieved a religious godless pagan homogeneity will likewise be achieved.
All of this is primarily the same attack that was waged on God in Genesis 11. All of this is in pursuit of a NWO Tower of Babel existence where the new NWO mulatto man exists as some kind of Orc to serve the ends of their elite masters.
Doubt me? Just read what some of the members of the NWO elite are saying,
“Diversity is perceived as a threat in many parts of Europe. Diversity brings challenges. But diversity is the fate of humanity. In future, not even in the remotest places on the planet will there be a nation without diversity. That is where humanity is headed.”
Frans Timmermans Dutch Foreign Minister — 2012-2014 First VP European Commission European Commissioner for the portfolio of better regulation
The EU should “do its best to undermine” the ‘homogeneity; of its member states,’ the UN’s special representation of migration has said… Peter Sutherland told peers ‘the future of prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural… He told the House of Lords committee migration was a ‘crucial dynamic for economic growth’ in some EU nations ‘however difficult it mat be to explain this to the citizens of the states.’ … He told the committee, ‘The USA or Australia and New Zealand are migrant societies and therefore they accommodate more readily those from other backgrounds than we do ourselves, who still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others. And that’s precisely what the EU, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine.’
Andreas Thierry — Politische Verfolgung in Osterreich
This is all part of a top down control agenda that has long been pursued by the NWO globalist elite;
I had followed the catastrophic stages of contracts [meaning the European Union (EU) treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, and Lisbon], of which the citizens know almost nothing about, and it was decided on the drawing board that the nations within Europe would no longer have borders so as to facilitate a smoother ‘passenger and weight transport’ service. I was a witness to with what doggedness and lack of respect for democracy these contracts were signed. The government and heads of state failed to inform the public about their content; they had satisfied themselves with some superficial information that only served to cover up the nature of the agreements…. Now I understand at last: here there were forces and motives at work of which I was unaware…. Why were the nations almost completely unaware of that the European institutions were doing? Why had the European Parliament, the only institution whose members could choose all citizens, virtually no legislative powers and was therefore a fiction with a false name? Why are the majority of decisions that have been based on agreements, of which the citizens were ignorant, are controlling exactly those citizens? The systematic recording of all fingerprints in a central European-American file; the biometric registration of citizens; creating a European police; the abolition of all military police units in the EU member states such as the Carabinieri in Italy; the introduction of stringent and destructive censorship of thought; and the compulsion to use ‘politically correct’ language? One thing was clear: it targeted not only the absolute control of all citizens, but their physical properties and their behavior also were registered by body scanners, the imminent implantation of microchip, biometric registration, ubiquitous video surveillance and the eventual phasing out of cash and the forced use of credit cards. But the main goal was to dominate them and to ‘humble’ them, even if not all were aware of this humiliation, to inculcate them with a submissive attitude so that they obeyed every command without questioning those in power…. It was all planned in advance. The author of the gigantic crime had hoped that, among the hundreds of millions of people who attended this spectacle, there would not be a single Poirot and if someone did rise up to explain the game to the public, no one would believe him.”
Ida Magli Italian Born Anthropologist The European Dictatorship — p. 99-102
The hour is late. It is long past time that Biblical Christians realize that there is an agenda here that is pushing for the mulatto man and that agenda is the destruction of all distinctions in pursuit of a homogenized, gender blender, dystopian world where mankind is turned into a living breathing expression of the Mao suit serving the god-state.
It is, in the end, an attempt to roll the God of the Bible off His throne.
Well I stood up first in Longtown, on down Dixie way Not realizing where I was standing But resolved just the same Resolved just the same
With authority on my mantle Which said I was learned Voices in my boxes said That was yet earned That was yet to be earned
I had long heard the whispers and felt the thunder Seen the lightning and knew the wonder But now it was me standing in that place Standing in that place
The man who called me took my ticket Said, “Confess what you believe” Cause that’s how you’ll be remembered When it’s time for you to leave When it’s time for you to leave
They who came before me Standing in that same space Were cautious and gentle And too wild to face Too wild to face
They came as well bred men They came with a rough hewn edge They all came as under His spell And committed to their pledge Committed to their pledge
Time’s string of fearless hearts, standing in that space It’s the same old desk, just in a different place Just in a different place
They lifted their voice in joy, lifted them in grief They’ve been heralds of His Word In war time and in peace In war time and in peace
From the portals of Heaven, to disaster at the door It won’t matter where you speak it Cause it’s been told before Yes, it’s been told before
They have come from the backwaters From the suburbs and the plains Heralds in rags and suits Heralds too wild to tame
Time’s string of fearless hearts, standing in that space It’s the same old desk, just in a different place Just in a different place
All were but treasures in earthen jars of clay Each new generation serving in their day Serving in their day
Our tribe go on forever, it’s ours to give the proof As long as men walk this earth We’re here to speak the truth Here to speak the truth
They came from the neon cities The farms and the towns From Old Princeton to Dallas They’ve stood on holy ground
Time’s string of fearless hearts, standing in that space It’s the same old desk, just in a different place Just in a different place Just in a different place
Same old desk, just in a different place Just in a different place
I don’t know long ago this was written, though I think somewhere around 2013. I don’t know who wrote it. I do know that I can provide quotes from Presbyterians in the last 50 years which will prove that whoever wrote this dreck should’ve stuck to his Church growth textbooks and not decided to delve into theology.
Begin OPC article,
Question and Answer
Is interracial marriage sinful?
Question:
I have noticed a recent influx of online discussions in supposedly reformed groups saying that interracial marriages are a sin. I believe they consider themselves “kinists.” What is the history of this doctrine? Would the OPC consider it heresy, or just bad theology?
Answer:
Kinism appears to be one of those odd systems which pop up from time to time among those with a tendency toward conspiracy theories, an over-inflated sense of entitlement, and an unhealthy victim mentality. It being about as fringey as fringe can be,…
BLMc responds,
Odd system? The Presbyterian Dr. Rev. Francis Nigel Lee didn’t think so.
Dr. Nigel Lee (1934–2011)
I don’t believe [racial integration] is what the Bible teaches. Even though we may have transgressed the boundaries of nationhood and of peoplehood, it seems to me that God did create man of one blood in order that he may dwell as different nations throughout the world. But after the fall, when sinful man cosmopolitanly – meaning by that, with a desire to obliterate separate nationhood, with a desire to build a sort of United Nations organization under the Tower of Babel…attempted to resist developing peoplehood…[God confused the tongues of men]…because men had said, ‘Let us build a city and a tower which will stretch up to heaven lest we be scattered’… Pentecost sanctified the legitimacy of separate nationality rather than saying this is something we should outgrow… In fact, even in the new earth to come, after the Second Coming of Christ, we are told that the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of the heavenly Jerusalem, and the kings of the earth shall bring the glory and the honor—the cultural treasures—of the nations into it… But nowhere in Scripture are any indications to be found that such peoples should ever be amalgamated into one huge nation.
“In another fourteen years, the future looks bleak for White Christians everywhere. In 1900, Europe possessed two-thirds of the world’s Christians. By 2025, that number will fall below 20% — with most Christians living in the Third World of Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Then, nearly 75% of the world’s Catholics will be Non-Western Mestizos or Black Africans. Right now, Nigeria has the world’s largest Catholic Theological School. India has more Christians than most Western nations. And Jesus is more and more being portrayed with a dark skin. By 2050, more than 80% of Catholics in the U.S. will be of Non-Western origins. Only a fraction of Anglicans will be English. Lutherans, Presbyterians and other mainstream denominations will find their chief centers of growth in Africa, Asia and Latin America — often syncretistically absorbing large quantities of Pre-Christian Paganism as revived Voodooism and increasing ancestor-worship. This “Christianity” rapidly degenerates into an immigrationistic, prolific and socialistic jungle-religion.”
Dr. F.N. Lee circa 2011
Christian-Afrikaners pg. 87
OPC Questions and Answers
“A central tenet of kinism seems to be that God wants people to keep themselves within strict ethnic groupings.”
BLMc responds.
WOW … how weird is the idea that Presbyterians might believe that God wants people to keep themselves within strict ethnic groupings?
However, there are those well known Presbyterians John Rice Edwards, Morton Smith, and Charles McCartney who believed just that.
John Rice Edwards, one of the founders of the PCA, listed as two reasons of several for why there was a need for the PCA to separate from the PCUSA in 1973
1.) The Racial Amalgamationist, who preaches that the various races should be merged into one race and differences erased in oneness.
2.) The Communist, who would have one mass of humanity coerced into oneness by a totalitarian state and guided exclusively by Marxist philosophy.
Elsewhwere Edwards offered,
“No human can measure the anguish of personality that goes on within the children of miscegenation… Let those who would erase the racial diversity of God’s creation beware lest the consequence of their evil be visited upon their children.”
Dr. Rev. Morton Smith also wrote about the weird idea of God wanting people to keep within strict ethnic groupings,
“If we may conclude that ethnic pluriformity is the revealed will of God for the human race in its present situation, it is highly questionable whether the Christian can have part in any program that would seek to erase all ethnic distinctions. That such distinctions may be crossed over by individuals may be granted, but it is at least questionable whether a program designed to wipe out such differences on a mass scale should be endorsed by the Christian. It is this line of argument that the average Christian segregationist uses to back his view. He fears that the real goal of the integrationist is the intermarriage of the races, and therefore the breakdown of the distinctions between them. Many who would be willing to integrate at various lesser levels refuse to do so, simply because they feel that such will inevitably lead to intermarriage of the races, which they consider to be morally wrong. . . .
The mass mixing of the races with the intent to erase racial boundaries he does consider to be wrong, and on the basis of this, he would oppose the mixing of the two races in this way. Let it be acknowledged that a sin in this area against the Negro race has been perpetrated by godless white men, both past and present, but this does not justify the adoption of a policy of mass mixing of the races. Rather, the Bible seems to teach that God has established and thus revealed his will for the human race now to be that of ethnic pluriformity, and thus any scheme of mass integration leading to mass mixing of the races is decidedly unscriptural.
Dr. Morton H. Smith (1923-2017)
(For more see: Dr. Morton H. Smith on Christianity, Race, and Segregation)
And then there is Dr. Clarence McArtney, a Presbyterian who also seemed to support the frigney idea that God desires people to stay within strict ethnic groupings,
“Love imagines that it can overleap the barriers of race and blood and religion, and in the enthusiasm and ecstasy of choice these obstacles appear insignificant. But the facts of experience are against such an idea. Mixed marriages are rarely happy. Observation and experiences demonstrate that the marriage of a Gentile and Jew, a Protestant and a Catholic, an American and a Foreigner has less chance of a happy result than a marriage where the man and woman are of the same race and religion….”
Dr. Clarence MacCartney – Presbyterian Minister
Sure looks like these Presbyterians just cited had no problem with the notion “that God wants people to keep themselves within strict ethnic groupings.”
OPC Questions and Answers writes,
Were this (ethnic distinctiveness) so, (important) one would expect the Lord to have mentioned this some place in the Scriptures. Not only is there no such mention, but the Bible explicitly teaches that ethnic and tribal identity are utterly beside the point when it comes to one’s relationship to God.
BLMc responds,
First off, no Kinist believes that ethnic and tribal identity necessarily forbids one from a relationship with the God of the Bible, That statement is utterly beside the point and so is ridiculous. It does however demonstrate how Kinists are constantly attacked by the straw man fallacy. It demonstrates how feeble minded the Reformed clergy are so that seemingly nobody actually has yet dealt with the issue of Kinism in a way that actually reflects what kinist’s believe. Thirdly, it also demonstrates that if these idiot clergy really believe what they are saying about the evils of Kinism then they should quit esteeming men like Calvin, Rutherford, Morton Smith, Clarence MacCartney, Machen, etc. because all those men and countless others were, at the very least, proto-kinists.
Next, Scripture is not silent on ethnic distinctiveness. See,
What kinist scriptural arguments I have found are classic examples of eisegesis: that is, reading an existing belief into a Bible verse which does not in fact teach that doctrine. I won’t quote Romans 4:1–12 here, but you will note that faith in Christ’s work makes one righteous before God and a child of Abraham. Paul argues very strenuously that Jews (“the circumcised”) are not truly descendants of Abraham in God’s eyes unless they share his faith. If the Lord Christ has no place for gene pool considerations within his church, why would he be concerned with them among the nations which exist only to provide members for the church?
BLMc responds,
Again… no kinist has affirmed the idea that “the Lord Christ has a place for gene pool considerations” within His Church in terms of who and who cannot be saved. That garbage accusation, like this whole column is a violation of the 9th commandment. What Kinists do affirm is that all gene pools comprise the Redeemed Church of Jesus Christ and that normatively as those gene pools exist as gene pools.
We see the OPC practicing this very thing in Westminster California where they have a Vietnamese Church (Resurrection Church). Should the OPC be telling their Vietnamese church that they have formed themselves on the basis of bad Eisegesis?
But let’s let the Presbyterians in Church history speak on why we should be concerned with gene pool considerations in the Church. Calvin wasn’t a Presbyterian but I doubt if even the OPC will mind if I include him here in a quote,
“Regarding our eternal salvation, it is true that one must not distinguish between man and woman, or between king and a shepherd, or between a German and a Frenchman. Regarding policy, however, we have what St. Paul declares here; for our, Lord Jesus Christ did not come to mix up nature, or to abolish what belongs to the preservation of decency and peace among us….Regarding the kingdom of God (which is spiritual) there is no distinction or difference between man and woman, servant and master, poor and rich, great and small. Nevertheless, there does have to be some order among us, and Jesus Christ did not mean to eliminate it, as some flighty and scatterbrained dreamers [believe].”
John Calvin (Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:2-3)
Here is the Presbyterian John Frame on the issue of gene pool considerations in the Church,
“Scripture, as I read it, does not require societies, or even churches, to be integrated racially. Jews and Gentiles were brought together by God’s grace into one body. They were expected to love one another and to accept one another as brothers in the faith. But the Jewish Christians continued to maintain a distinct culture, and house churches were not required to include members of both groups.”
John Frame,
“Racism, Sexism, Marxism”
Here is Presbyterian John Edwards Richards, Professor of Theology. Presumably Edwards would have held this conviction about gene pool considerations in the Church.
“The vast majority of good thinking people prefer to associate with, and intermarry with, people of their respective race; this is part of the God-given inclination to honor and uphold the distinctiveness of separate races. But there are many false prophets of oneness, and many shallow stooges, who seek to force the amalgamation of the races.”
Dr. John E. Richards
So, what we see from the Minister who inked that OPC article is the practice of eisegesis, violation of the 9th commandment and the usual irrational ratiocination that we have come to expect from simpleton clergy in the Reformed world.
OPC Question and Answer article,
However, the kinist websites I looked at contained any number of deliberately insulting and demeaning racial epithets. A member of the OPC who engaged in such behavior would be seriously disturbing the peace, purity, and unity of the church, and could very well be brought to trial. Thus, while kinism may not be a gross heresy, it certainly is a schismatic (divisive) movement, one which any sane Christian should give a very wide berth.
I hope you, as I do, find kinism not only personally distasteful and morally repugnant, but fundamentally at odds with the Gospel itself. Because God has reconciled sinners to himself through the Cross, all sinners must be reconciled to one another. If kinism, with its offensive regard for the flesh, is true, the Apostle Paul is wrong.
BLMc responds,
First, as a Kinist I have to admit that too often Kinists can be over the top with their language. I’ve tried to do my bit in reigning that in a wee bit. So, while I am hardly a spokesmen for Kinists (a fiercly independent group if there ever was one) I apologize where we and I have gotten carried away with our insulting and demeaning language. However, we must recognized that just as I don’t dismiss Christianity because the author of this OPC article has cast in the teeth insulting and demeaning language at Kinists, and just because the author of this piece has printed slander regarding Kinists, on that basis I do not reject the truthfulness of Biblical Christianity. Just so, Kinism can not be rationally refused because some Kinists use over the top language at times.
Similarly I would say that the author of this article is seriously disturbing the peace, purity, and unity of the Church and in a sane church world would be brought up on charges. So, while the alienism of this Minister author, I hope the readers of this response will find as I do the OPC Questions and Answers column personally distasteful and morally repugnant as well as being fundamentally at odds with the Gospel. People like this “minister” are being schismatic. His alienism is something any sane Christian should give a very wide berth.
We will end with smashing the author’s ludicrous statement implying that the Apostle Paul didn’t teach Kinism type doctrines.
Romans 9:3 For I could pray that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
I had three majors in Undergrad when I graduated in 1982 from Marion College. One of those three was a Religion-Philosophy degree. This meant taking classes in theology, and philosophy. As I recall my Bible courses counted towards this degree as well. In the Religion-Philosophy pool one had to swim with the Professorial sharks named Dr. R. Duane Thompson, Dr. Wayne Caldwell, and Dr. Malcolm Ellis. The Secretary of the Department was Maxine Haynes. (I only remember Mrs. Haynes because she was assigned every year with giving every graduate of the Religion-Philosophy program two adjectives to describe them for the Religion-Philosophy graduation ceremony. Of course they were supposed to be flattering for the students as they were honored before their family. I remember because one of Maxine’s adjectives for me was “improving.” Talking about being damned with feint praise. All these years later, I have no idea what Maxine’s second adjective for me was. All I remember about that ceremony is that she had complimented me by saying I was “improving.” I guess it could’ve been worse.) Maxine had put me in the fine wines category. Imagine how much I’ve “improved” since then. 😉
Anyway, I’ve gotten ahead of myself with that memory. My memories center most around Dr. R. Duane Thompson. Now keep in mind that Dr. Thompson was teaching Philosophy at an explicitly Christian University and all the time what was coming through in his classes was pure Existentialism. Dr. Thompson had more of the smell of Camus, Sartre and Heidegger about him then he had the smell of Christ. Of course, at this age I was to young to get all of what Dr. Thompson was pushing. A good deal of it was hazy. However, it all became clearer to me years later when I went back and re-read those textbooks that were assigned in my “Existentialism,” and “Aesthetics,” classes. Thompson was big into Phenomenology which is an aspect of Existentialism. I remember one of the courses had an off campus student in it and one day she, quite literally, had an existential experience. Everything that Thompson had been teaching suddenly coalesced for her and she was so excited over the epiphany that could barely stay in her seat. I remember thinking that someday Thompson would be held accountable for how he had led her astray with his Existentialism. “Giddy” hardly does justice to her effervescence that day, and Thompson sat there like a Cheshire cat with a grin from ear to ear.
I didn’t do well in Thompson’s classes. Remember, I’ve already told you that I was, on the whole, not a good student until my last three semesters. If I got by with a “C” in Thompson’s classes I counted myself blessed. A funny fact about Thompson’s classes was that fact there was never more than six or seven students in the class. Dr. Thompson’s classes were very intimate and it was hard to hide and hiding in class was something I had worked hard at practicing. I was a student’s whose zip code was always in the back row practicing the art of last one in and first one out.
Despite Thompson’s heresy of Existentialism there can be no doubt he was an intelligent man. However, it has been my experience that some of the smartest men I’ve ever known have also been some of the most unwise people I’ve ever known. Dr. Thompson was just such a man. He was intelligent in so many respects and yet his Existentialist worldview found him on the other side of wisdom.
Dr. Wayne Caldwell was the chap who taught me my first “theology,” (two Semesters) as well as Bible courses in the Johannine writings as well as the synoptic Gospels (one Semester each). Dr. Caldwell was a kindly man who had a grandfatherly type of approach. I never had a great deal of interaction with him but when I did he was always even-handed. I did well in his theology courses. Of course he was teaching Arminian theology (our Textbook was John Miley’s systematic Theology) but at the time for whatever reason I really took to Theology and showed aptitude. In this course I excelled. I would excel eventually in other courses but this was one of the first courses where I found the material to be comparatively comprehensible. Most of the course was taught in terms of how we were different than the evil Calvinists. Indeed, most of my blue books (test booklets) are an apologetic against Calvinism with Dr. Caldwell’s comments complimenting my test answers for their thoroughness. I graduated being a thorough-going opponent of Calvinism. Dr. Caldwell indoctrinated us well and it took me a decade to get out of that Arminian box.
In terms of humorous memories and Caldwell I remember coming into class late once wearing a pair of jeans that was significantly torn from the knees to the ankles. He was not amused and I wasn’t amused at his lack of amusement. Of course I understand now his way of thinking. He was from a different generation and my attire was a sign of disrespect in his way of thinking. Looking back he was correct. However, in my defense, I just couldn’t bring myself to be part of the polyester pants ministry student’s club. Those chaps were so tight they squeaked when they walked. I was (and remain) more free styling in my lean into life. Although I took a large number of classes with those chaps who would go on to be Wesleyan Ministers I never ever fit into their mode of being and for that we are both thankful. I just couldn’t go through life being “good,” and working to be seen as “respectful.” I had more of John Dillinger in me than John Wesley.
The other memory of Dr. Caldwell was the time he marked me down on a major paper because the typist I paid to type my paper spelled my first name with two “t’s” instead of one. He wrote on the paper, “I’ve never seen you write your name with two “t’s” before but I suppose you know best.” Yet, despite his admission that I knew best he still docked the paper. I didn’t know who to be more peeved at, the stupid typist or a chap who was so anal that he had to mark down a major paper because some stupid typist couldn’t spell. Ah well … it could’ve been worse.
Dr. Caldwell, in our Bible classes would have us do massive notebooks on the books of the Bible we were studying. I still have fat notebooks on John’s writings and the Synoptic Gospels. Of course this was all very preliminary stuff but still much needed as building blocks for future work in Scripture that would be pursued in Seminary and then in the ministry. The ubiquitous pencil that is behind my ears comes from these days of using colored pencils to color code loose leaf study bibles for Caldwell’s class.
Looking back, I am disappointed that in my Religion-Philosophy degree I got Existentialism and Arminianism as Christianity. It was a disservice to Christianity and a disservice to the students. Fortunately, my History and Poly-Science degree rescued the shaping I was getting from my Religion-Philosophy degree work.
Dr. Malcolm Ellis taught Ethics. It was the only course I took from him. The clearest thing I remember about Ethics is showing up to class one day without knowing we were having a major exam. I showed up completely unprepared. I somehow scuffled a “C.” I have always had the ability to shovel the BS when needed and I shoveled enough on that exam to make it look like I knew a little bit what I was talking about. Another interesting aspect of the “Ethics” course was that a major part of the grade was based on a 25 page paper on some aspect of Ethics. As I told you earlier I was taking an Aesthetics class from Thompson which also was requiring a major paper on some aspect of Aesthetics. So, naturally, I did what any fan of Tom Sawyer would’ve done. Instead of laboring over two major papers I wrote one paper titled “Ethics in Aesthetics,” and turned it as my final paper for each class. Ellis gave me an “A.” Thompson failed me because the paper was 24 hours late but still managed to write on the paper that it was a quality paper that would have gotten a good grade had I handed in on time. Small satisfaction that. To this day I see the irony in the same paper acing and failing two different courses. It was likely God’s justice for me trying to be clever and get out of work my handing in one paper for two major required assignments.
However, as revenge is a dish best served cold eventually there was a final assize with Thompson for failing me for being 24 hours late in turning in my paper. A couple years later when on the cusp of graduation in 1982 someone came up with the brilliant idea of bricking Thompson’s office door shut thus barring him from his lair and so from about 0130 – 0430 on one evening several Marion College students entered into McCaan chapel by skulduggery– all of whom had the same warm affection for Dr. Thompson — and there, where Dr. R. Duane’s office was, and with the use of quick dry cement, and recently purchased 200 bricks, Dr. Thompson’s doorway was bricked shut. The quick dry cement was mixed up in a waste basket. Several trowels worked feverishly and upon completion his door was bricked shut. Left behind was a heater unit facing the then new brick wall so as to accelerate the pace of quick dry cement. Rumor later was heard that when the secretaries showed up for work that morning they were quite beside themselves and all in a twitter that where Dr. R. Duane Thompson’s door once was there now existed a brick wall. By all accounts it took some time for maintenance to tear down someone’s version of the Berlin Wall. To this day it remained a mystery as to why Thompson’s door was chosen.
I also received a number of credits for the Religion-Philosophy degree from another Professor who also weighed in greatly on my other degrees so I’ll save him for another entry.
A word should be said about my classmates in the religion-philosophy degree. As I said they belonged to a different world than I. I always felt bad for those guys because these 20 year olds really had the pressure on them. They were being told they had to be entirely sanctified before they would be allowed to take a pulpit and going into the Wesleyan ministry was the direction that most of them were moving. This led inevitably to a good number of these guys claiming to be entirely sanctified (which means one is sin free) all the while they themselves knew that was an entirely bogus claim. All of this led to creating a great degree of self-righteousness and hypocrisy in those students going into the ministry. I didn’t have that problem. I was glad to admit that I had no business getting any where near a pulpit at that age. Save for God’s grace I’m still sure I should not be near a pulpit.
So, happy Anniversary Marion College (Indiana Wesleyan University) and thank you for the Religion-Philosophy degree. You will be glad to know that I kept pursuing philosophy after graduating under-grad. I kept reading the books. I kept examining the errant presuppositions of Western Philosophy from the time of Descartes’ cogito forward. I think I could carry on a pretty decent conversation with Dr. Thompson 40 years later were he still alive (he passed away in 2009). However, I would be begging him to repent by the time we finished. His Existentialism really did him no good and was of no help to his students.
He knows that now.
Addendum — Doing a little probing I just discovered that Dr. R. Duane Thompson did graduate work at Butler University in Philosophy when the famous Calvinist Dr. Gordon Haddon Clark (my favorite Christian Philosopher) was the Chair of the Butler University Philosophy Department. Now, I can’t help but wonder if their paths ever crossed. Now that would’ve been a fascinating conversation.
On 08 April, 1924 Colorado 1st District US Congressman William Vaile said before Congress,
“Let me emphasize here that the restrictionists of Congress do not claim that the “Nordic” race, or even the Anglo-Saxon race, is the best race in the world. Let us concede, in all fairness that the Czech is a more sturdy laborer with a very low percentage of crime and insanity, that the Jew is the best businessman in the world, and that the Italian has a spiritual grasp and an artistic sense which have greatly enriched the world and which have, indeed, a spiritual exaltation and an artistic creative sense which the Nordic rarely attains. Nordics need not be vain about their own qualifications. It well behooves them to be humble.What we do claim is that the northern European and particularly Anglo-Saxons made this country. Oh, yes; the others helped. But … [t]hey came to this country because it was already made as an Anglo-Saxon commonwealth. They added to it, they often enriched it, but they did not make it, and they have not yet greatly changed it.We are determined that they shall not … It is a good country. It suits us. And what we assert is that we are not going to surrender it to somebody else or allow other people, no matter what their merits, to make it something different. If there is any changing to be done, we will do it ourselves.”-Cong. Rec., April 8, 1924, 5922
On 12 April, 1924 US Congressman Scott Leavitt from Montana said on the floor of Congress,
On 12 April, 1924 US Congressman Scott Leavitt from Montana said on the floor of Congress,”The instinct for national and race preserevation is not one to be condemned …. No one should be better able to understand the desire of Americans to keep America American than the gentleman from Illinois (Adolph Sabath), who is leading the attack on this measure, of the gentlemen from New York, Mr Dickstein, Mr. Jacobstein, Mr. Emanuel Celler , and Mr. Perlman. They are of the one great historic people who have maintained the identity of their race throughout the centuries because they believe sincerely that that are chosen people, with certain ideals to maintain, and knowing that the loss of racial identity means a change of ideals. That fact should make it easy for them and the majority of the most active opponents of this measure in the spoken debate to recognize and sympathize with our viewpoint, which is not so extreme as that of their own race, but only demands that the admixture of other peoples shall be only of such kind and proportions and in such quantities as will not alter racial characteristics more rapidly than they can be assimilated as to ideas of government as well as blood.”
Of course, as we know, Vaile and Leavitt and their allies prevailed in 1924 in shutting the door to excessive immigration over the objections of the opposition as lodged primarily in the Jewish contingent in Congress. They shut the door with the express goal of maintaining a set racial and ethnic identity that had been that racial and ethnic identity that characterized the predominant expression of Americans up till that time.
From Leavitt’s quote we see the main opposition in 1924 was the Jewish contingency in Congress. Interesting enough if we fast forward to 1965 we see, with the passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act which basically overturned the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act that once again it was the Jewish contingency in politics that was largely instrumental in snuffing out Johnson-Reed. In 1965 we see (amazingly enough) Celler doing what he could not get done in 1965. New York Congressman Celler also had help in 1965 from New York Senator Jacob Javits as well as assorted Jewish writers and organizations. To be sure others pushed as well (Teddy Kennedy, LBJ, Dean Rusk, etc) but the heavy lifting for the bill was done by the Jewish community in America.
And of course the 1965 Immigration bill has succeeded in exactly the way it was intended. At the time we were told that the 1965 Bill would have no impact on the face of America by President LBJ who said upon signing the Bill,
“This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives, or really add importantly to either our wealth or our power.”
More false words have seldom fallen from the lips of a US President. Since signing the Bill we have seen the US Population which in 1940 was 89% white descendants of Europe died down seven decades later to 67% and is still falling. Of course LBJ isn’t alive today to tell us now how Hart-Cellar didn’t affect the lives of millions. In point of fact it has, contrary to LBJ’s lies, restructured the daily lives of our children and grandchildren.
So, why did the Jewish political powers fight so hard in 1924 to stop the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act and why did they continue to fight until they successfully overturned it with Hart-Cellar in 1965? Well, we don’t have to guess because one of the Jewish literati pulled back the curtain to answer that question.
Jewish journalist Charles E. Silberman in his 1985 book, “A Certain People; American Jews and their Lives Today” explained why Jews have always supported multiculturalism; “American Jews are committed to cultural tolerance because of their belief, one firmly rooted in history, that Jews are safe only in a society acceptant of a wide range of attitudes and behaviors, for example, approval of homosexuality, that leads an overwhelming majority of American Jews to endorse ‘gay rights’ and to take liberal stance on most other so-called social issues.”
The thinking here is that as Jews have always felt persecuted they have taken refuge in seeking to turn social orders wherein they live into majority minority social orders. The thinking is that if no one ethnic group can be ascendant Jews cannot be themselves singled out for abuse. It is merely a form of the old coda of “divide and conquer.”
That this disposition continues is seen in the words of Barbara Lerner Spectre Founder of the European Institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden;
“Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role.”
Of course all of the above is bad form to even notice. This push has so insulated itself from criticism that to even observe its existence is considered criminal and somehow a violation of some kind of law against holocaustianity, and that despite the fact that there is nothing above that is even close to being outlandish, bigoted or libelous. In point of fact it is merely stating the glaringly obvious. Were it not the case that we have been busy stabbing out our eyes so that we can’t see all that’s been said here, all that’s been said here would be considered very pedestrian. A real bore-fest.
There is nothing un-Christian in the least to love one’s own people and to desire to protect them from the wicked designs of others who love their own people to the point of seeking harm against Christian’s loving their people.